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Old 09-25-2013
RedHat Third party cron service
Hi,

Is there any third party scheduling service like cron or at service which used for scheduling tasks in a specific time. In the same time, is these third party scheduling service (if available) effect the default or the normal crontab service while both are running in the same time (e.g. can't run Sendmail and Postfix to gather).

Thanks
# 2  
Old 09-25-2013
Yes. They are called batch schedulers. AppWorx from UC4 is one of many. This is expensive.

Open source: see:


Batch Runner
JobScheduler | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net
# 3  
Old 09-25-2013
Hope you don't mind me asking.
Why would you need a different task scheduler other than cron?
I don't want to start a flame war here, just curious about why you would need it in the first place.
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Old 09-25-2013
No thing important actually, simply I hate using the default stuff!! But I still have a question, if I run it, would it effect the normal crontab activity in bad way? like conflict in services (like the one between Postfix and Sendmail if you run them in same time).
# 5  
Old 09-25-2013
I believe so, but I'm afraid I can't tell for sure since I can't try as I don't have any 3rd party tools installed. Give it a try in a test box and if you don't mind, get back to us to share the results.
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Old 09-25-2013
You certainly wouldn't want to have cron and a third-party cron installed at the same time.

What's your distribution? It may have different cron implementations available already. I was given a choice between vixie-cron and metachron...
# 7  
Old 09-25-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
You certainly wouldn't want to have cron and a third-party cron installed at the same time.

What's your distribution? It may have different cron implementations available already. I was given a choice between vixie-cron and metachron...
I'm working on RHEL6 and CentOS 6.4, I want to make both of service work in the same time (The default crond and the third party service), I wan't give some privacy to my scheduled jobs.
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