Re: Looking for a good job Scheduler / Batch Processer

In article <4a97g5$2j3@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> bw000001@pixie.co.za "Billy Wheeler" writes: > >I am looking for a Unix software package to help us schedule jobs to run > >automatically in a timely efficient manner. > > Cron? :-) We use 'cron' for all our batch jobs and have provided a script in '/usr/bin' to ensure the correct environment gets set. The script takes arguments from the 'crontab' line & parses them setting the correct variables and then runs another script to set the environment (using '. ' method). Hope this also helps. -- ============================================================================ Sally Woolrich | This mail contains my personal sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk | views not those of my employer! ============================================================================