Perl Scheduling

Hi

Is there any kind of Perl scheduling module/system which will allow me to
abstract the scheduling from the tasks to be done? I need it to be fairly
flexible to allow the setting up of any kind of time based scheduling
profile. I am working on a Windows system so don't have the luxury of cron
and would like to be able to register new tasks with different scheduling
profiles programmatically. I have written my own in the past but am
revisiting the problem and would be interested if anyone has any
recommendations.

Thanks
Mark

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Re: Perl Scheduling

Mark Knoop wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any kind of Perl scheduling module/system which will allow me to
> abstract the scheduling from the tasks to be done? I need it to be fairly
> flexible to allow the setting up of any kind of time based scheduling
> profile. I am working on a Windows system so don't have the luxury of cron
> and would like to be able to register new tasks with different scheduling
> profiles programmatically.
As usual, visiting CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/) and searching for
'scheduler' yields interesting results; Schedule::Cron seems to be one,
but perhaps you'd be more interested in Win32::TaskScheduler. Depends on
your ultimate needs - there are many others that may be suitable. The
win32 one is basically an API to the fairly capable task scheduler in
Windows (so you *do* have the 'luxury' even though it doesn't go under
the name of 'cron').

HTH,

ken1
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Re: Perl Scheduling

> Mark Knoop wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Is there any kind of Perl scheduling module/system which will allow me to
>> abstract the scheduling from the tasks to be done? I need it to be fairly
>> flexible to allow the setting up of any kind of time based scheduling
>> profile. I am working on a Windows system so don't have the luxury of
>> cron and would like to be able to register new tasks with different
>> scheduling profiles programmatically.
> As usual, visiting CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/) and searching for
> 'scheduler' yields interesting results; Schedule::Cron seems to be one,
> but perhaps you'd be more interested in Win32::TaskScheduler. Depends on
> your ultimate needs - there are many others that may be suitable. The
> win32 one is basically an API to the fairly capable task scheduler in
> Windows (so you *do* have the 'luxury' even though it doesn't go under the
> name of 'cron').
>
> HTH,
>
> ken1
>
Thanks for your input. I did have a look at the Schedule::Cron module but it
seems that everything has to be called from the same program which is not
ideal, although it does make it easier to add tasks dynamically than cron
itself which is a bonus. I may yet find a use for this...

I have relied on the Windows task scheduler before to my cost.

Rather than just search on CPAN I would be interested if anyone had any
recommendations (as I asked originally)... it seems too common a requirement
for there not to be a Template::Toolkit style de facto standard!

Mark

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Re: Perl Scheduling

> Is there any kind of Perl scheduling module/system which will allow me
to
abstract the scheduling from the tasks to be done?

May be overkill but there's the WebGui kit:
http://www.webgui.org/

Much much more than a scheduler but ...

a

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Re: Perl Scheduling

>
> I have relied on the Windows task scheduler before to my cost.
>
Just curious, but what problems did you have?

ken1
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Re: Perl Scheduling

Hi

It was a while ago but there seemed to be a bug where when the clocks =

changed the security/user got all messed up. I'm sure its fixed by now but =
I =

still feel that it is a bit unweildy to use the task scheduler for 1000s of =

scheduled tasks being added and remved dynamically.

Cheers
Mark


----- Original Message ----- =

From: "Kenneth Ölwing"
To: "Mark Knoop"
Cc:
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Perl Scheduling


>
>>
>> I have relied on the Windows task scheduler before to my cost.
>>
> Just curious, but what problems did you have?
>
> ken1
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Re: Perl Scheduling

>> Is there any kind of Perl scheduling module/system which will allow me
> to
> abstract the scheduling from the tasks to be done?
>
> May be overkill but there's the WebGui kit:
> http://www.webgui.org/
>
> Much much more than a scheduler but ...
>

Looks interesting - even if I don't use it for this could come in useful so
thanks for this.

Mark

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