Job Scheduling

[Christopher Browne]

On 1/15/07, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:48:51PM -0500, Simon wrote:
> >That article's at least 8 years old.  Are you sure that today's cron
> >schedulers don't already do these things?
>
> I do not believe that cron can be centrally controlled nor does it
> understand job dependency.  One has to look to enterprise schedulers,
> like Tivoli, for these features.

RIght.

It is rather disappointing that we have theoretically progressed 8
years, since then, but nonetheless *don't* have anything more
sophisticated than traditional cron for job scheduling.
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