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  • Timed Event in SBBS vs. Scheduled Event externally

    From Dmxrob@1:103/705 to All on Sunday, February 17, 2019 20:21:49
    One of the things I like more than anything is a "Centralized view" of all systems, of which I consider SBBS to one of. I have started writing a number of automated tasks for SBBS and am trying to weigh the benefits of having it an internal timed event vs. putting it in an external scheduling system. For the scripts I am working on, they are not dependent on any SBBS objects.

    I'm using Rundeck here at home to schedule and orchestrate other workflows. If something goes wrong, I have a central view I can see immediately what went wrong, where, get output, etc.

    Any thoughts one way or the other?

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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to Dmxrob on Sunday, February 17, 2019 22:11:59
    Re: Timed Event in SBBS vs. Scheduled Event externally
    By: Dmxrob to All on Sun Feb 17 2019 07:21 pm

    One of the things I like more than anything is a "Centralized view" of all systems, of which I consider SBBS to one of. I have started writing a number of automated tasks for SBBS and am trying to weigh the benefits of having it an internal timed event vs. putting it in an external scheduling system.
    For the scripts I am working on, they are not dependent on any SBBS objects.

    I'm using Rundeck here at home to schedule and orchestrate other workflows. If something goes wrong, I have a central view I can see immediately what went wrong, where, get output, etc.

    Any thoughts one way or the other?



    i'm not sure that's necessary for synchronet bbs. you could always grep the error logs. what do you expect to go wrong?
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to Dmxrob on Sunday, February 17, 2019 21:30:26
    Re: Timed Event in SBBS vs. Scheduled Event externally
    By: Dmxrob to All on Sun Feb 17 2019 07:21 pm

    systems, of which I consider SBBS to one of. I have started writing a number of automated tasks for SBBS and am trying to weigh the benefits of having it an internal timed event vs. putting it in an external scheduling system. For the scripts I am working on, they are not dependent on any SBBS objects.

    I used to use Radius' CRON feature for my maintenance and moved some of the tasks over to Windows Task Scheduler. I think the main criteria is whether or not you need to have the board idle when you run the event, I'm pretty sure you can lock down nodes while SBBS events run.

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  • From Dmxrob@1:103/705 to MRO on Monday, February 18, 2019 08:46:43
    Re: Timed Event in SBBS vs. Scheduled Event externally
    By: MRO to Dmxrob on Sun Feb 17 2019 09:11 pm

    i'm not sure that's necessary for synchronet bbs. you could always grep the error logs. what do you expect to go wrong?

    Greping error logs is very manual. I'd much rather try to automate as much recovery as I can.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Dmxrob on Monday, February 18, 2019 13:49:00

    On 2019 Feb 18 07:46:42, you wrote to MRO:

    i'm not sure that's necessary for synchronet bbs. you could always grep
    the error logs. what do you expect to go wrong?

    Greping error logs is very manual.

    really? don't tell that to my automated tools that use grep extensively ;)

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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to Dmxrob on Monday, February 18, 2019 21:45:05
    Re: Timed Event in SBBS vs. Scheduled Event externally
    By: Dmxrob to MRO on Mon Feb 18 2019 07:46 am

    Re: Timed Event in SBBS vs. Scheduled Event externally
    By: MRO to Dmxrob on Sun Feb 17 2019 09:11 pm

    i'm not sure that's necessary for synchronet bbs. you could always grep the error logs. what do you expect to go wrong?

    Greping error logs is very manual. I'd much rather try to automate as much recovery as I can.

    make a script to grep it and email you
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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to mark lewis on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 08:10:00
    On 02-18-19 12:49, mark lewis wrote to Dmxrob <=-

    Greping error logs is very manual.

    really? don't tell that to my automated tools that use grep extensively

    Join the club! :)


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