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> © 2000-2014 <A
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>Thibault Godouet</A
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>Chapter 1. Fcron: how and why?</TD
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>1.5. Todo</A
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>Here are some things that should be done ... Note that some of these
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entries are just some ideas, which <EM
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>If you see something you'd really like to see implemented here, feel
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free to send me a mail: it may make me move it to the top of my to-do list ;) .
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>If you plan to help me, please send a mail at <CODE
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> to prevent two
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people from doing the same thing. You can send me some propositions as
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well, or ask me to move something to the top of the heap ;) .</P
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>1.5.1. High priority</A
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>Option to compile and install from git sources without generating the doc</P
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>register in OS suspend/hibernate mechanism to stop fcron when going to sleep and start it again when resuming from sleep (see FAQ entry).</P
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>1.5.2. Low priority</A
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>Add unit tests using some unit-test framework (turn the tests/* code into unit tests)</P
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>For environment settings, make a var substitution.</P
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>add a mailsubject option, for custom mail subjects (for instance, in case of a job containing something secret -- password, etc -- in the command line).</P
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>Use directory notifications (FAM) / inotify, and support a fcrontab
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and a cron.d as Vixie cron does (directly included in fcron itself, not thanks to a script as now).
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However the parsing work is done by fcrontab, and should probably keep on being done by fcrontab for
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security and stability reasons: have fcron call fcrontab to do that job?</P
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>could be worth checking fcron for memory leaks using specialized library (just in case...)</P
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>option to put a maximum limit on the execution time of a task + terminate it if not finished yet + send email to let the user know</P
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>setting to limit the number of jobs of a single user in the serialq/lavgq to X jobs + make sure root always has Y slots that it can use in those queues (i.e. number of slots used by root + number of free slots >= Y)</P
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>Test (and use ?) docbook2x-man -- xlstproc ? cf http://antoine.ginies.free.fr/docbook/ch09.html</P
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>find way to have the non translated pages of the French translation be updated automatically (changes, todo, etc -> copied from the English doc)</P
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>add a return code for jobs which would mean that they
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should not be run again (in case of an error, etc...).</P
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>PAM support (included in fcron, but needs more tests by
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people using PAM - not implemented in fcrondyn: is it needed
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in fcrondyn anyway?)</P
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>support for per user serial queue (especially for root)</P
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>1.5.3. Ideas</A
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>add a system of modules: at startup, fcron loads some
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modules (.so files). Then, when fcron should run the job, it
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calls a function of the module, and let it manage the job
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(threads?). (do linux dlopen(), etc exist on other systems?
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- yes: thanks Harring ;) dlopen exists on all POSIX system -
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even windoze - abait it does not use the same insterface of
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function calls. But it can be easily implemented to port to
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another system.).</P
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>(related to the system of modules? create a kind of
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dependencies?) Add a way to run a job only if a command
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returns true. It would permit, for instance, to run some jobs
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on a laptop only if it is on AC power.</P
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>and depending on the return value of the command, cancel
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the execution, or wait x seconds before trying again, etc.
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In this case, needs change the way the jobs are queued?</P
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>add an option/module to prevent fcron from running a job if the
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system is running on battery (anacron does it?)</P
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>Add a way to stop a job (SIGSTOP) if the lavg gets to high,
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and restart it (SIGCONT) when the lavg has decreased.</P
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>Add a timeout for task completion: if a task takes more
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than a specified timeout, then start another script with the
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initial task PID as argument. That would allow a kill with
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different signals (-HUP, -TERM -STOP, .... or any other action
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like sending a mail to sysadmin to alert him/her that a task
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is taking too much time and that he has to have a look at it.)
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(add an option to specify the cmd, and combine w/ option until)
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