Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier looks at whenjobs

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/552976:weekend-project-take-a-look-at-cron-replacement-whenjobs

I’ve been using whenjobs quite a lot (probably I’m the single most extensive user). Some things I like:

• The ability to list jobs and ‘tail’ the output of jobs as they are running. A big improvement over cron where jobs are effectively opaque and undebuggable.
• Restarting jobs because of temporary failures.

And some things I don’t like:

• You can’t set multiple variables atomically.
• It’s hard to predict the effect of setting a variable, ie. which jobs will run after you execute a particular whenjobs --set command.
• It probably would be better if whenjobs could work across mulitple hosts, with each host having a shared view of the current variable state.

(The first two of these are fairly simple to fix)

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