Re: crond, hwclock, and clockspeed

Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, I took a look at "runwhen" just today, actually.  I presume that's
> what you're referring to. :)

Yep.

> Do you or anyone else here have a tool that will automatically generate
> runwhen scripts based on syntax that's at least vaguely crontab-like?

http://code.dogmap.org./runwhen/#related

> I schedule a few once-a-month jobs, and therefore, this desired utility
> would also have to generate runwhen scripts that manage programs that
> run on more-than-25-day intervals on my 2.6 linux system.

One way to handle that would be to have your script sleep for, say, a
constant two weeks ("rw-add n d14d wake rw-sleep \$wake ..."), and
then from there figure out how long it is until the next run time and
sleep again.  Early wakeups with "svc -a" would require some special
handling.


paul