Subj : Scheduler
To : Francois Thunus
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Nov 14 2003 01:56 am
FT> Hello Mark!
FT> 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?
FT> yes. there is something under linux precisely for that. I
FT> think it is called anachron. You can always grab the source
FT> and recompile with emx. For small things it is usually smooth
FT> sailing. The alternative is to build a similar system using
FT> Rexx. Every time you boot the system, your script reads the
FT> database of things to do, check when it was done the last
FT> time. If the delay is passed, it does it and updates the
FT> database/flag until next time.
yup, that's what this 4DOS dayboot thingy does... however, now i have to try to
figure out how to get it to do it on specific dates in addition to its current
every x days mode... since its written in 4DOS stuff, it should also operate
just fine under 4OS2 as a "native" script... i won't find that out, though,
until i get the rest of it working as needed...
