Subj : Scheduler
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Thu Nov 13 2003 11:19 am

Hello Mark!

11 Nov 03 22:33, mark lewis wrote to Gord Hannah:

 ml> i've got cron utils and such... the problem is when the time for the
 ml> event passes while the machine is jambed or even turned off... i have
 ml> events that need to run as soon as the machine returns to operational
 ml> condition... crons won't do that... note that i'm speaking of things
 ml> that may not run but once a month or less... if the event time passes, i
 ml> don't want to have to wait for another month before it runs... i need it
 ml> to run now...
 ml> maybe that explanation makes better sense now?
yes. there is something under linux precisely for that. I think it is called 
anachron. You can always grab the source and recompile with emx. For small 
things it is usually smooth sailing. The alternative is to build a similar 
system using Rexx. Every time you boot the system, your script reads the 
database of things to do, check when it was done the last time. If the delay is 
passed, it does it and updates the database/flag until next time.


                             -= Francois =-

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