NAME

TaskForest - A simple but expressive job scheduler that allows you to chain jobs/tasks and create time dependencies. Uses text config files to specify task dependencies.

VERSION

This is version 1.30.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

With the TaskForest Job Scheduler you can:

• schedule jobs run at predetermined times
• have jobs be dependent on each other
• rerun failed jobs
• mark jobs as succeeded or failed
• check the status of all jobs scheduled to run today
• interact with the included web service using your own client code
• interact with the included web server using your default browser
• express the relationships between jobs using a simple text-based format (a big advantage if you like using 'grep')

SYNOPSIS

Over the years TaskForest has migrated from a collection of simple perl modules to a full-fledged system. I have found that putting the documentation in a single POD is getting much more difficult. You can now find the latest documetation on the TaskForest website located at

 http://www.taskforest.com

If you run the included web server, you will also find a complete copy of the documentation on the included web site.

BUGS

For an up-to-date bug listing and to submit a bug report, please send an email to the TaskForest Discussion Mailing List at "taskforest-discuss at lists dot sourceforge dot net"

SUPPORT

For support, please visit our website at http://www.taskforest.com/ or send an email to the TaskForest Discussion Mailing List at "taskforest-discuss at lists dot sourceforge dot net"

AUTHOR

Aijaz A. Ansari http://www.taskforest.com/

If you're using this program, I would love to hear from you. Please send an email to the TaskForest Discussion Mailing List at "taskforest-discuss at lists dot sourceforge dot net" and let me know what you think of it.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to the following for their help and support:

• SourceForge
• Rosco Rouse
• Svetlana Lemeshov
• Teresia Arthur

I would also like to thank Randal L. Schwartz for teaching the readers of the Feb 1999 issue of Web Techniques how to write a pre-forking web server, the code upon which the TaskForest Web server is built.

I would also like to thank the fine developers at Yahoo! for providing yui to the open source community.

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself - specifically, the Artistic License.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SEE ALSO

perl(1).