Comments on: cron http://www.zomo.co.uk/2010/02/cron/ Is it done yet? Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: lemon http://www.zomo.co.uk/2010/02/cron/comment-page-1/#comment-131 lemon Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:54:02 +0000 http://www.zomo.co.uk/?p=217#comment-131 Absolutely. Using such wrappers <em>are</em> my monitoring and management solution to failing and misconstructed cron jobs. I don't get to vet every cron that is installed on platforms I admin, but I do get to encourage the use of these wrappers to sidestep common pain points. Absolutely. Using such wrappers are my monitoring and management solution to failing and misconstructed cron jobs. I don’t get to vet every cron that is installed on platforms I admin, but I do get to encourage the use of these wrappers to sidestep common pain points.

]]> By: JohnK http://www.zomo.co.uk/2010/02/cron/comment-page-1/#comment-130 JohnK Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:25:42 +0000 http://www.zomo.co.uk/?p=217#comment-130 Cron follows UNIXs philosophy for programs - do one thing and do it well. Cron simply scheduled jobs/scripts/programs. Whatever runs or doesn't run is your problem. (.. and it does seem to be a problem to you.) I far prefer being able to do my own monitoring and managment of failed jobs than be constrained to one method built into cron. Your problems all seem to fit into a scripting category. So maybe it's that you should be looking at. Cron follows UNIXs philosophy for programs – do one thing and do it well. Cron simply scheduled jobs/scripts/programs. Whatever runs or doesn’t run is your problem. (.. and it does seem to be a problem to you.) I far prefer being able to do my own monitoring and managment of failed jobs than be constrained to one method built into cron.
Your problems all seem to fit into a scripting category. So maybe it’s that you should be looking at.

]]> By: Cyde Weys http://www.zomo.co.uk/2010/02/cron/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Cyde Weys Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:23:24 +0000 http://www.zomo.co.uk/?p=217#comment-127 As a suggestion for a follow-up post, can I make a suggestion that you post some example cronwraps you've written? I would find those very useful and informative. I currently have problems with one job occasionally overrunning past its next invocation, so I'm going to give lockrun a go, but I'd also like to see how you handle logging and output direction. As a suggestion for a follow-up post, can I make a suggestion that you post some example cronwraps you’ve written? I would find those very useful and informative. I currently have problems with one job occasionally overrunning past its next invocation, so I’m going to give lockrun a go, but I’d also like to see how you handle logging and output direction.

]]> By: lemon http://www.zomo.co.uk/2010/02/cron/comment-page-1/#comment-125 lemon Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:53:37 +0000 http://www.zomo.co.uk/?p=217#comment-125 Sure, one variant has a diddy web interface that a generous onlooker might call a dashboard at a stretch! It was written on someone else's dime though, so I'll check if they're cool for me to publish. Sure, one variant has a diddy web interface that a generous onlooker might call a dashboard at a stretch! It was written on someone else’s dime though, so I’ll check if they’re cool for me to publish.

]]> By: Zach Peters http://www.zomo.co.uk/2010/02/cron/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Zach Peters Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:03:03 +0000 http://www.zomo.co.uk/?p=217#comment-123 Weird, i was just on the same vibe earlier. I'm working up a blog post on a sort of cron dashboard. It won't be anything close to production quality, but hopefully it will be usable. Can I pick your brain for an example cron wrapper script? Weird, i was just on the same vibe earlier. I’m working up a blog post on a sort of cron dashboard. It won’t be anything close to production quality, but hopefully it will be usable.

Can I pick your brain for an example cron wrapper script?

]]> By: Jeff http://www.zomo.co.uk/2010/02/cron/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Jeff Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:41:53 +0000 http://www.zomo.co.uk/?p=217#comment-122 I realize that no one uses it outside of Mac OS X, but I like launchd for a lot of the reasons you don't like cron. I realize that no one uses it outside of Mac OS X, but I like launchd for a lot of the reasons you don’t like cron.

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