Job Scheduling

[Dave Cramer]

Apple has something called launchd which is open source, even has a  
business friendly license

http://launchd.macosforge.org/

Dave
On 12-Jan-07, at 5:37 PM, Marc Lijour wrote:

>
> If you use Java you coud look at the Quartz scheduler, you mention it.
> I used it and I have no complaints. It looks solid and you can use  
> cron
> expressions ;-)
>
> On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:27, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> Is there anyone using more sophisticated job schedulers than cron?
>>
>> http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-07-1998/swol-07- 
>> scheduling.html
>>
>> The above article points out the problems with this:
>>
>> "In short, cron is pretty much a fancy alarm clock, waking up at
>> preset times to run a job. Detection of job failure is simplistic,  
>> and
>> it can't rerun a failed job at a later date. If you're lucky, cron
>> will send you e-mail that a job has failed, but more often than not,
>> that e-mail goes to the superuser, not your personal mailbox.  
>> There is
>> no way to tell cron to restart a failed job, or to automatically  
>> run a
>> recovery job if some other job has failed."
>>
>> This article points out Unison Maestro, COSbatch, Autosys, CA
>> Unicenter as commercial choices that have these sorts of additional
>> capabilities.  Others include Vexus Avatar, Dollar Enterprise, BMC
>> Control-M, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, ...
>>
>> There are several OSS systems that might be of some relevance:
>>
>> http://jobscheduler.sourceforge.net/
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/quartz (tasks must be in Java...)
>>
>> Anyone tried any of these?
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