ANN: kronos, a task scheduler

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at poste.it
Fri May 21 23:58:03 EDT 2004


Irmen de Jong <irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:<40ad1f5c$0$36860$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>...
> Hello
> I've written a task scheduler called "kronos".
> This task scheduler is designed to be used from inside your own program.
> (i.e. it is not a cron daemon replacement).
> You can schedule Python functions to be called at specific intervals or
> days. It uses the standard 'sched' module for the actual task scheduling,
> but provides much more:
>      - repeated tasks (at intervals, or on specific days)
>      - error handling (exceptions in tasks don't kill the scheduler)
>      - optional to run scheduler in its own thread or separate process
>      - optional to run a task in its own thread or separate process
> 
> It is available from http://www.razorvine.net/download/kronos.py
> 
> Because it is the first version I'd like to request feedback from others!
> Suggestions, bugs, improvements? Please let me know.
> 
> Your input is highly appreciated.
> 
> --Irmen de Jong

I havent't looked at the code it is unclear to me if kronos is a kind of daemon
or not: what happens if I reboot my machine? Is it enough to restart kronos 
in some init script to get the scheduled task to be executed at the right
times or is it more complicate than that?
Thanks,

                        Michele Simionato



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