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Simon Walker:
Bryan Tong Minh:
I really like the crontab syntax of vixie cron, especially @reboot and /. Would it be possible to use vixie on Solaris?
Or the jobserver to be sorted out for scheduling tasks maybe? I notice that per-month scheduling, and every n minutes, or every n hours is still impossible
Eventually I would like to see the jobserver supplant cron entirely. As well as offering a nicer interface (IMO), it is quite a bit more featureful. In particular, a future extension is the 'distributed jobserver', where jobs are started on any of a number of hosts according to load. That would mean that if we rebooted one login server, for example, jobs would be automatically re-started on the other, effectively meaning no downtime.
But this is all something for the future, and in particular depends on whether WM-DE is willing to fund the work to develop it.
In the meantime, I don't think replacing Sun cron with Vixie cron is feasible. Changing out a core part of the system (which other parts of the system rely on) for a completely different implementation is likely to cause all kinds of problems, and of course would be completely unsupported.
- river.