Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Nicolas Williams > <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: > >> And we risk pursuing a full calendaring solution here (now _that_ would >> be creeping featurism). Plus we'll want to consider using CalDAV as a >> protocol so we can get existing UIs for free :) (just kidding, >> mostly!). >> > > Storing cron configuration centrally wouldn't be all bad. This could > make it so that membership in a (e.g.) netgroup could cause a > particular job to run on lots of hosts. > >
[At the risk of re-inventing N1GE...] yes, we get requests for this occasionally as well as requests for Solaris Cluster aware cron. It seems to me that N1GE, or similar, is perhaps more appropriate than cron for at least some of these tasks. P.S. Mike, N1GE is "open source" :-) -- richard
