[clue-tech] cron jobs off to the races

[Shawn Perry]

fcron is awesome.  the serialonce job option should handle what you're
looking for.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:05 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
> wrote:
> > Is there a way to tell cron to automatically check to see if a job is
> already running before invoking it?
> > It seems a bit silly to have to implement "prior invocation detection"
> code in every cron-invoked script.
> > Doesn't it?
>
> I don't know the answer, but there is a new variant called fcron that
> provides a lot of new capabilities, especially for systems that are
> not running 24x7. The examples I've seen include the ability to run
> one or more extra scripts prior to each individual cron item, and the
> syntax is a lot more flexible that vixie/??? cron.
>
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> Collins Richey
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