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author | Sergei Kolobov <sergei@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-11-01 20:50:36 +0000 |
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committer | Sergei Kolobov <sergei@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-11-01 20:50:36 +0000 |
commit | a0e5aa5641ba3a5270ac15d421fc3b4660be1520 (patch) | |
tree | 20182b1576a3406f5203605f08cf5e441fd301fc /sysutils/Makefile | |
parent | f6a5689295586a87708953437558cc61709331be (diff) | |
download | ports-a0e5aa5641ba3a5270ac15d421fc3b4660be1520.tar.gz ports-a0e5aa5641ba3a5270ac15d421fc3b4660be1520.zip |
Add runwhen 2003.10.31, tools for running commands at particular times.
The biggest difference between runwhen and other schedulers is that
runwhen doesn't have a single daemon overseeing multiple jobs.
The runwhen tools essentially act as a glorified sleep command.
Perhaps runwhen does nothing that at(1) doesn't, and there are
lots of things at(1) does that runwhen doesn't:
- runwhen doesn't change user IDs - thus it will never run
anything as the wrong user.
- It doesn't keep a central daemon running at all times -
thus it won't break if that daemon dies.
- It doesn't require any modifications to the system boot procedure.
- It doesn't log through syslog(3) - thus it won't make a mess
on the console if syslogd(1) isn't running.
- It doesn't centralize storage of scheduled jobs (or any other
per-job information) - thus unprivileged users can install and use it
without cooperation from root, and without the use of a setuid program
to handle changes.
- It doesn't send output through mail - thus it doesn't break
if there is no mail system installed.
- It doesn't check access control files - thus it doesn't gratuitously
deny users.
Author: Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu>
WWW: http://multivac.cwru.edu/runwhen/
PR: 58789
Submitted by: David Thiel <lx@redundancy.redundancy.org>
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=92791
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diff --git a/sysutils/Makefile b/sysutils/Makefile index 265699968b88..89289eb62dfc 100644 --- a/sysutils/Makefile +++ b/sysutils/Makefile @@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ SUBDIR += ruby-log4r SUBDIR += ruby-quota SUBDIR += runit + SUBDIR += runwhen SUBDIR += safecat SUBDIR += samefile SUBDIR += sarah |