It's been rumoured that Rob Browning said:
> I still want to do a more automated automated task system, but I've
> put that on the back burner. I want gnucash to be able to schedule
> events that are guaranteed to happen, even if you don't have gnucash
> running, and I want it to be able to do this itself, without having to
> ask the user to modify their crontab, etc. by hand. Unless we're
> going to get in the business of editing the user's crontab
> automatically, something I'd vhemently oppose, we need either a
> modification to cron, or an "at" with a few guarantees.
>
> I got in a long discussion with the at/cron/anacron maintainers and
> other developers about this a while back and they weren't at all
> excited about any modifications to support my ideas. I can't really
> blame them, but to do things "right" using cron (IMO), I felt one
> viable solution would be a slight modification to cron which would
> allow a user to have multiple "tagged" cron files. This would allow
> gnucash to maintain it's own crontab (it would be the user's gnucash
> tagged crontab -- i.e. you could say "crontab -e --section gnucash",
Wow,
I'm impressed. I've been vaguely thinking that somehow, unix doesn't
have enough sophistication for submitting jobs, but stopped short of
thinking how to solve it. Maybe gnucash is currently the only app
that really wants this sort of stuff, and since it seems to be
exceptional in this way, maybe we should indeed have a customized
internal solution.
> the "cron database". I think this may be upstream now too.):
>
> /etc/cron.d
> /etc/cron.d/postgresql
> /etc/cron.d/exim
> /etc/cron.d/anacron
> ...
> /etc/cron.daily/find
> /etc/cron.daily/netbase
> /etc/cron.daily/standard
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db
> /etc/cron.daily/mgetty
> ...
> /etc/cron.monthly/standard
> /etc/cron.monthly/wu-ftpd
> ...
> /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd
> /etc/cron.weekly/man-db
> /etc/cron.weekly/cvs
except for cron.d, the rest of this is in redhat I think.
--linas
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