Re: [Condor-users] [nmi-users] automated nightly builds

[Peter Couvares <pfc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, that's the current way everyone does it.

Andy Pavlo is actually working on some cool native Condor mechanisms  
to support this kind of recurrent scheduling in a more reliable way  
than cron[*], and as soon as they're available we plan to use use  
them in the NMI B&T system to offer more robust B&T scheduling as a  
built-in feature -- but for the time being, cron is it.

-Peter

[*] E.g., worrying about how to express and enforce clear semantics  
on exactly when to execute, how to execute on time, what happens when  
you miss an execution window, what to do when subsequent executions  
overlap, etc.  I.e., avoiding all the age-old problems of cron, when  
jobs do unexpected things.  Nice stuff.


On Jul 27, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Jim Basney wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> What's the best way to setup automated nightly builds?
> A cron job on grandcentral?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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