[Linux-cluster] Cron Jobs

[Juan Ramon Martin Blanco]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Joseph L. Casale
<jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>>1.
>>What about replacing the directory containing the cron job descriptions in /var with a symbolic link to a directory on the sahred filesystem.
>
You could use a shared filesystem mounted on /etc/cron.d to keep cron
scripts, and a certain control inside these scripts for not executing
the job on both nodes.

Greetings,
Juanra
> yeah, my first inkling was to symlink /etc/cron.daily but that breaks so much existing functionality.
>
>>2.
>>You application service start/stop script may modify the cron job description files.  This is more complex, as it has to deal with remote nodes that may be >down.
>
> I followed you until you spoke of remote nodes? What exactly do you have in mind?
> Thanks!
> jlc
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