Task Scheduling

[Jason K Larson]

Ryan Bowman wrote:
> I'm thinking of writing a script that edits crontab to schedule the
> restart for 1am daily.  I can run that script manually on the days
> that I need to restart jboss, then the following day remove that task
> from cron (or modify the restart script to edit crontab for me).  Is
> there a better way?

What about some sort of bash wrapper that tests for the existance of a 
file, or the contents value of a file to determine if the script needs run.

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Ritter