Re: Job Schedulers (preferably Open Source)

From: William Park (opengeometry_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: 21 Dec 2004 02:32:03 GMT

Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@spamcop.net> wrote:
> Anyway. 80 *nix boxes. Hundreds of crontabs. Lots of places for stuff
> to hide, and not trivial to manage. Also, let's say we need to move the
> periodic job up or back for whatever reason. Bit of a pain in the ass
> to log in to each & change the crontab.
>
> If I had a centralized system, ...

Is there reason why those 80 servers can't be consolidated into one (or
two) server, and replaced by 80 thin-clients? That would clean up lots
of infrastructure problem. 

-- 
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
Linux solution for data processing.

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