Thanks for the quick reply! I'll definitely take your advice on this. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ezra Zygmuntowicz</b> <<a href="mailto:ezmobius@gmail.com">ezmobius@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">CHarlie-<br><br> If all you need is nightly type jobs then bdrb is not the right
<br>choice,. I would just use cron and script/runner.<br><br>Cheers-<br>-Ezra<br><br>On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Charlie Bowman wrote:<br><br>> I've been having a terrible time with the backgroundrb scheduler.<br>
> The issues I'm having is that the scheduled actions aren't ran at<br>> all and if they do, the process stays around forever. I'm using<br>> the backgroundrb as a nightly cron to run some accounting operations.
<br>><br>> questions:<br>> 1. How can I have the process destroyed after the worker completes?<br>> 2. Any idea on what would keep the prcesses from being started.<br>> The backgroundrb.log is empty. I'll post the backgroundrb_server.log
<br>> 3. Is backgroundrb even the right choice for nightly rails crons?<br>><br>> Thanks for any help, and of course for backgroundrb!<br>><br>> Charlie<br>><br>> This is the backgroundrb_server.log for last night. It called and
<br>> ran this worker but none of the rest (about 7 others). Again,<br>> nothing was written to the backgroundrb.log. all the workers run<br>> fine when manually called, and even run fine some of the time<br>> through cron.
<br>><br>> 20070604-06:00:00 (29111) Schedule triggered: #<struct #<Class:<br>> 0xb7a2a5ac> job=#<Proc:0xb7982dac@/var/www/companyapp/releases/<br>> 20070531073057/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/
<br>> middleman.rb:355>, trigger=#<BackgrounDRb::CronTrigger:0xb7366cc0<br>> @sec=[0], @wday=0..6, @min=[0], @month=1..12, @hour=[6], @year=nil,<br>> @day=1..31, @cron_expr="0 0 6 * * * *">, earliest=Mon Jun 04
<br>> 06:00:00 EDT 2007, last=Mon Jun 04 06:00:00 EDT 2007><br>> 20070604-10:00:03 (29111) Starting worker: collect_worker collect<br>> (collect_worker_collect) ()<br>> _______________________________________________
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