Rudder

Hi Dennis,

The Job Scheduler technique exists to execute a command only once a day. There are currently no way to execute a command every five minutes, but maybe the technique in developpement here http://www.rudder-project.org/redmine/issues/3214 would help you.

What kind of job would you like to run ? Would you need as well them to be run in a specific time interval ?

We execute scripts every five minutes to feed our monitoring system. I could solve it by deploying /etc/crontab as a file, but it would be nice to schedule this within Rudder.

Nicolas CHARLES wrote:

Ho, so I think we'd need a specific technique for that. What do you think Jon ?

There is already a Technique to manage crontab: Technique Cron daemon configuration.

Sorry, I wasn't aware of the crontab technique. Maybe it's not in the right place? Also, why is there a job scheduler and a crontab technique, while they could be merged?

Dennis Cabooter wrote:

Sorry, I wasn't aware of the crontab technique. Maybe it's not in the right place? Also, why is there a job scheduler and a crontab technique, while they could be merged?

1. the crontab technique edits the crontab, and the cron is responsible for running the command; so Rudder doesn't know anything about it
2. the jobScheduler technique runs the command, and can extract return code from it, to have reports on the execution of the command.

So they don't have the same purpose...
I guess #3214 is the one you'll need