Best pick for time-based 'event' looping?

[Billy Abbott]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Peter Corlett wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:16:56PM -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote:
>> What I'm looking for is a best-of-breed sort of CPAN solution for a
>> job-queue processor in which the jobs are run based on time. Not quite
>> "cron", mind you, but not too different from that. In essence:
>
> What you described sounds awfully like at(1), and the crufty hacks people
> used on VMS to do a cron-equivalent. (VMS only had an at-equivalent when I
> last poked at it.)

We use this beast on VMS (and have been for a while) to make scheduling 
Fun! http://www.mvpsi.com/OpenVMS.aspx

It does stuff on non-VMS platforms as well but I suspect it is both 
expensive and overkill for most people's needs. It does allow time based 
scheduling though, which is nice :)

--billy

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