On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Peter Corlett wrote:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:16:56PM -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote:
What I'm looking for is a best-of-breed sort of CPAN solution for a
job-queue processor in which the jobs are run based on time. Not quite
"cron", mind you, but not too different from that. In essence:
What you described sounds awfully like at(1), and the crufty hacks people
used on VMS to do a cron-equivalent. (VMS only had an at-equivalent when I
last poked at it.)
We use this beast on VMS (and have been for a while) to make scheduling
Fun! http://www.mvpsi.com/OpenVMS.aspx
It does stuff on non-VMS platforms as well but I suspect it is both
expensive and overkill for most people's needs. It does allow time based
scheduling though, which is nice :)
--billy
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