[Gllug] Advanced versions of cron for scheduling

[Wiehe, Simon]

What you need is an open source version of AutoSys (http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Product.asp?ID=253) 
or Control-M (http://www.bmc.com/products/proddocview/0,2832,19052_19429_23437_1521,00.html) etc.

These products allow you to group jobs together and make them dependent on each other. Dependencies
can be on success, failure, running, not running etc. Jobs can also be time dependent so you could
have job A start at 9:30 (and run for 1 hour) and job B should start at 12:00 but only if A has finished
successfully. When A completes B will be ready to run and come 12:00 it will start, however if A has
failed or is still running B will not start, if the latter B will start when A finally completes.

Both these products allow you to do cross machine (and platform) dependencies. You could have Job A
running on Linux and B running on Windows.

I don't know if one exists but it is a project I have been contemplating or many years.

Having never embarked on an open source project before does anyone have any pointers for me
and does anyone else wish to get involved?

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