From: pat eyler Date: 2006-04-04T23:25:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Possible RubyQuiz idea On 4/4/06, 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. > > Cron? Tchoh. > > Martin > > -- thanks, -pate -------------------------