RE: [Pyatcron-devel-list] Cron backend: a correction

[Xavier Nicolovici]

Julien,

We are not re-implementing a Cron or At daemon. If the cron task or the
at commands does not provide a functionality, then simply forget it for
the moment.

Instead, we could think of predefined tasks that will do the trick, but
this is out of the scope of this project.

I have one remark about all that is currently said on this list. We do
not have any list of requirements or items to implement. As of today,
I'm a bit lost within all we would like to implement. Does anybody here
could list what we want to implement, from a user perspective?



On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:34, Julien Olivier wrote:
> Yes, that's what I've read.. But what could be useful would be to setup
> a cron job running, for example, every day at noon, which would run "at
> updatedb". That way, it would run a command at a given time, when the
> comuter is not too loaded. The best of both worlds.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 15:32, NICOLOVICI Xavier wrote:
> > Quoted from the "at" man page:
> > 
> > ***********
> > batch   executes commands when system load levels  permit;
> >         in  other words, when the load average drops below
> >         0.8, or the value specified in the  invocation  of
> >         atrun.
> > ***********
> > 
> > Answer is when the system is NOT loaded
> > 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Julien Olivier [mailto:address@hidden
> > Envoyé : jeudi, 13. novembre 2003 16:24
> > À : address@hidden
> > Objet : Re: [Pyatcron-devel-list] Cron backend: a correction
> > 
> > 
> > > 2. Same as cron I think, using the "at" command (at,atq,atrm). Looking at
> > > the "at" manpage, I've found a command named "batch" which plans a task
> > when
> > > the system load decrease until a fixed value. From a desktop user
> > > perspective, I would ignore this option in our project, but this might be
> > > usefull sometime, what do you think?
> > > 
> > 
> > Batch could be useful, especially for system tasks. Just a question:
> > does it run when the system is loaded AND after a given time ? Or only
> > when the system is not loaded ?
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Xavier Nicolovici <address@hidden>