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* Réf. : Re: [9fans] allow
@ 2000-07-17 16:08 boyd.roberts
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and who's gonna re-run it (authenticated) after a server crash?

plan 9 auth is pretty neat, but it bites you back too.



                                                                  
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presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> Cron in such a system becomes much harder.  The cron process has to
> possess some of  my private keys in order to do it's job.

I don't see that -- surely a "user" could fire up its own cron-ish
process to perform scheduled tasks.  Why does there have to be a
centralized "cron"?


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