* 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 -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/