* Jordan Brown <Jordan.Brown at Sun.COM> [2008-05-22 23:31]:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > (Perhaps it's simple.  Just have two different mechanisms -- old cron,
> > not in SMF, and new cron via SMF instances.)
> 
> Maybe.  I'd think more in terms of the traditional crontab files being 
> slurped in in addition to the SMF-based jobs.  The actual runtime 
> processing would be identical for the two.  Still relatively simple.

  I would do it this latter way as well.  Two configuration sources, one
  execution path.  You'll also need to spin up a thread or other means
  of listening for restarter events.  I believe we have a trivial
  restarter skeleton somewhere...

  - Stephen

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