Anyone working on a cron port?
Mark Müller
MarkMueller86 at compuserve.de
Sun Jun 15 18:18:07 CEST 2008
What about upstart integration? A look into the faq of the upstart
project lists replacement of cron/atd/anacron as one of the planned
features [1].
[1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/faq.html#replace-cron
Ilja O. schrieb:
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp at hjp.at
> <mailto:hjp at hjp.at>> wrote:
>
> On 2008-06-15 02:29:48 -0700, ian douglas wrote:
> > Suppose I could check the project page, but it's 2:30am and I'm
> tired
> > and lazy. I was updating and installing some software on my
> Freerunner
> > tonight to test mp3 playback and noticed again that there's still no
> > mention of a cron engine in the opkg library.
> >
> > Anybody know if it's being worked on? I think that'd be an
> especially
> > handy tool to have. I'd go so far as to call it 'essential', at
> least in
> > my circumstance.
>
> I think a straight port of cron would be simple but not very useful.
> Cron is really designed for computers which run 24/7.
>
> A cron-like tool for a phone (or any other device which is suspended
> most of the time) at least needs the ability to wake up the device in
> time for a scheduled job to run and go back to suspend mode after
> it has
> finished. But many jobs usually don't need to run at a fixed time.
> They
> can just run the next time the device is woken up by the user. Or the
> next time the device has AC power.
>
>
> Maybe straight port of anacron will do?
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