[Gllug] Advanced versions of cron for scheduling

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:07:48PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 19:48 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > We are currently using cron to schedule batch jobs which must be run
> > at certain times of the day, but we're starting to hit limits with
> > this approach.  So as a result we're casting around looking for a
> > "better cron".
> > 
> What do you mean by 'batch jobs' ???

Probably not very clear from my original email.  These jobs are user
programs which must be run at particular times.  The programs are used
mainly to fetch stats from remote SOAP services and change bidding
prices based on these stats.  Since the remote services are
failure-prone, we need to do things like handling jobs if they get
"stuck" accessing the services, running bidding jobs only if stats
jobs all succeed, not trying to run two bidding programs at the same
time, and so on.

It all needs to run from a script of some sort (like a crontab), but
update us by email, particularly when things go wrong.

> I'm not being sarcastic. Have you thought about using a scheduler/load
> balancer like Gridengine?
> 
> http://gridengine.sunsource.net

I'm guessing this is for running jobs over clusters?  The website is a
rather opaque, but I'll download it and have a look.

Thanks,

Rich.

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