I'll reprise my comment from the last time a new and better cron was posted here[1]: While cron is clearly pushed way past its capabilities by many people (wit

I'll reprise my comment from the last time a new and better cron was posted here[1]: While cron is clearly pushed way past its capabilities by many people (without always realizing it), this strikes me as a reinvention of something that's been around forever: the batch system. If the goals are improved reliability, management, fault-tolerance, etc., you'd be better off using mature software that was designed to solve this problem, and already has good community support, like Condor. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916737 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916737