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On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 00:52 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan <<A HREF="mailto:jonrysh@pacbell.net">jonrysh@pacbell.net</A>> wrote:
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I'm interested in a replacement for cron which would allow me to run various cron jobs on demand, and mark them as having been run, so they won't be run again from the schedule. Looking through the Fedora repository, I noticed whenjobs, which looks like it may do the job (no pun intended). The documentation for whenjobs says that it is obsolete and has been replaced by goaljobs.<BR>
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Has anyone tried out whenjobs or goaljobs. Any problems? Will they do what I need done?
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Is there some reason 'at' won't do what you want?<BR>
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I don't think <I>at</I> will do the job. <BR>
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In more detail: I have a cron job which backs up my desktop system every day. The job is actually invoked by anacron, which starts it about an hour after I boot up the system for the day. Backing up takes from half an hour to an hour and a half, depending.
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<LI>Frequently, I start the system, check my email and leave for breakfast; on these days, I'd like backup to start when I leave; I would invoke it by a shell script or whatever.
<LI>Other days, I stay on the system for a while; on these days I'd like cron to start the job whenever its algorithms think best.
<LI>I don't want to leave starting the job completely to a shell script run from a terminal, because I'd often forget to run it.
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If I can replace <I>cron</I> with <I>at</I> and get the desired result, I'll be happy.<BR>
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Thanks - jon<BR>
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