scheduled jobs under supervise (was: "extern int errno" was deprecated 2 years before "djbdns" was even written)

Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Simpler with the same advantage: "do-the-job ; exec sleep 60".

<plug mode="oneupmanship">
For simple "sleep 60"-type stuff, yes, that'll work.  For "sleep until
Tuesday at noon", runwhen helps. :)

> Drawback : you can't send signals to do-the-job with svc, but it
> would be a risky business anyway (do-the-job is supposed to be
> short-lived).

Well, it often is, but it doesn't need to be.


paul