HI folks,

i'm looking for a server that does job scheduling but unlike cron , it has to be something that is event driven!

meaning that the job is triggered by a certain action , signal ..etc rather than on a periodic bases.

any suggestions?

cheers

So by action, you mean clicking on an icon with your mouse, and by signal, you mean the bat signal, right? </sarcasm>

But seriously, this is a little vague. What are you trying to do, and what have you already done to try and accomplish this?

No , let me explain it better .

obviously i'm posting in the SERVER forum so the issue is related to SERVERS , so no mouse clicking is involved instead an event or signal should be understood in terms of interprocess communication methods.

here is an example to illustrate the situation ,

assume you've a linux or a unix-like system with process A and B.

process A is doing random operations of some nature , however on certain occasions process A will divert special batch jobs (i.e computationally intensive jobs that are out of the scope of process A) to a different process namely B which will carry out those batch operations.

said that , process B will start those batch operations and run them to the end independently , while process A continues its normal operations without waiting for process B to return the output of those batch operations since they are no longer the concern of process A ....etc

yeah that's it basically.

now the difference between that and a cronjob , is that cron obviously it's period-driven while this server solution should be event driven , responding on demand whenever needed.

so far i've been experimenting with nohup and simple shell scripts but they way too unstable and very hard to debug..

cheers

thanks