On 4/4/06, azrael / cream.org <azrael / cream.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:36:24PM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> > On Apr 4, 2006, at 6:30 AM, Robert Dober wrote:
> >
> > >Rewriting cron in ruby
> >
> > Call me crazy, but that one sounds like fun to me.  :D
>
> You should aim high, and think "bigger than cron".
>
> Create one convention-over-configuration Ruby program with Needles that
> can replace crond, atd, init, supervise, inetd and anything else that
> starts a program ever; make it supports port-proxying, lazy loading of services,
> signal handling, session-handling and automatic dependency discovery.
> *Then* you're talking.

Spend some time looking at CFEngine and CFRuby/libcf if you choose to
go down this path.

>
> Cron? Tchoh.
>
> Martin
>
>


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thanks,
-pate
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