Nicolas Williams wrote: > cron does not, however, keep track of past job runs, and this is lame: > you must check your e-mail. One potentially quite useful improvement to > cron might be to track failure rates per-job and recent history.
So you mean that perhaps each cron job should have a log file showing the results of its previous runs? Er... like /var/svc/log/*.log? > Another potentially quite useful improvement to cron might be job > dependencies (e.g., "user is logged in on console," "user is logged in," > "Kerberos credentials are available," ...). Hmm. That starts to hint at something I was thinking about but didn't want to get into: using something SMF-like to manage your desktop sessions. Why is "if user is logged in" more closely tied to cron jobs than it is to general services? I would, eventually, like to see something a lot like SMF used to control all of the little mostly-background doodads that run as part of my desktop session, possibly including cron-like time-based operations... but not today.
