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Re: Centralized Managed Cron Daemon



On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:37:02PM -0500, Israel Garcia wrote:
> On 12/14/09, Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Israel Garcia wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any centralized  managed cron daemon for debian where I can
> >> manage crontabs from other nodes?
> >
> > I hesitate to admit it, but I have Webmin running on my hosts (with some
> > consideration of connectivity in the packet filters). Maybe not exactly what
> > you're looking for, but it does a pretty good job administering crontabs
> > from a central location.
> Hi Glenn,
> 
> The problem is I don't use webmin at all.. so I'm looking for
> something easier than installing webmin in more than 200 nodes...:-)

That doesn't sound like you want a cron manager so much as a
systems administration automation system (which will include the
ability to put cron jobs on classes of machines). Consider
Puppet and bcfg2.

-dsr-


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