Re: djbcron

2001-02-23 Thread James R Grinter
"Chris Garrigues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few years ago i had a gig teaching use of Tivoli Maestro, which is best described to Unixheads as "cron on steroids". It's a port of a mainframe Yes! Many of us will have encountered this functionality in similar tools such as Autosys and

Re: djbcron

2001-02-21 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Michael Handler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone wrote: Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Posit: he already has. user@hypothetical$ cat /service/logrotate/run #!/bin/sh logrotation commands exec /bin/sleep 86400 Nothing hypothetical about it. I have been running a

Re: djbcron

2001-02-21 Thread Russell Nelson
Michael Handler writes: What's really needed in this instance is a program that, given an execution schedule on the command line, figures out how long until the next scheduled execution, and sleeps that long (sleepuntil). Potential problem: clock shift (NTP resync, DST transitions)

Re: djbcron

2001-02-21 Thread Chris Garrigues
From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:27:24 -0500 (EST) Michael Handler writes: What's really needed in this instance is a program that, given an execution schedule on the command line, figures out how long until the next scheduled execution, and sleeps