Upstart is more for replacing init. Its less suitable for jobs that need to be s...

surki · on May 25, 2010

I think long term plan for upstart is to replace cron[1](generating events at scheduled time ...)

And some more general information here [2]

[1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/faq.html#replace-cron

[2] http://www.netsplit.com/2006/09/01/upstart-can-now-replace-s...

pyre · on May 25, 2010

Hopefully they do a better job than Apple. I had a number of issues with their init/cron replacement.

masomenos · on May 25, 2010

so true! Every time i'm forced to deal with launchd for scheduling, I wish I was using cron.

naner · on May 25, 2010

This is what I am looking forward to. Cron, atd, and init all have functionality that should be integrated and udev aware.

And this functionality should be easily available to all applications. If I want to send a specific email at noon, or backup my laptop drive every night at 3am only when on my home network, etc., I should be able to without using 5 different daemons or programs kept running in the background and hacked-together scripts.

ElliotH · on May 25, 2010

Ooh - hadn't seen that - looks interesting. I stand corrected.