On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:25:06PM +0900, pat eyler wrote:
> 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.

Ooh, this looks interesting.

Martin