Hi PLUG, I'd like some suggestions for Unix/Linux software that does just a bit more than our old standby, cron. I'd like:
- A simple way to add new jobs (like cron) - A complete report of what was run and when (cron doesn't do this) - An email even if the job takes a long time (cron apparently doesn't send email if the job takes more than 5 minutes) - A way to disable jobs temporarily I want to run long jobs such as mysqldump and rsync from VPSs to a backup drive. Maybe someone has already written a different version of cron that does these things. Thoughts? (I have played with various backup programs designed for archiving on tape, but I use rdiff-backup, not tape; the programs designed for tape seem too obtuse to be useful. I just want to run trivial scripts.) Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
