chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (10/12/84)
How do you do job scheduling? The standard UNIX way is via cron, but
unfortunately cron isn't supported under Eunice.
That leaves the VMS style method of stuffing jobs into queues to start
up at some time, and have the job resubmit itself when done. We have
been using this method, but things are quickly getting out of hand.
I've started writing a cron, which should make life easier. Unfortunately,
the furthest it has gone without crashing so far is ten hours. Maybe
I'll get the bugs worked out. But I figure making a cron work can't
be too easy if TWG didn't provide one in the first place.
My question is what are Eunice sites out there doing for job
scheduling? Any suggestions or ideas would be welcome. (A public
domain version of cron which runs under Eunice would be *wonderful*.)
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Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara
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