Jordan Brown writes: > It seems obvious to me that cron should be turned into an SMF restarter, > so that you can enable, disable, import, and remove cron jobs using > simple and standardized mechanisms. > > Has anybody started to look at this yet? > > I'm tempted to try spending some of my copious free time on it, just for > the entertainment value. Were I to do so, would people be interested?
I assume you're talking about CR 6399739. Yes, that'd be a good idea. The one issue I see there is that the crontab interfaces are standards-related issues, so you can't just do an inetconv-type one-way slurp. The compatibility story would have to be an important part of it. (Perhaps it's simple. Just have two different mechanisms -- old cron, not in SMF, and new cron via SMF instances.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
