limit freqency of cron jobs

[webquarry]

Perhaps this would be a good suggestion for a future DA version if the capability doesn't exist already....

Does DA have any way to limit how frequently the user can specify a cron job to run?

We had some genius set up a cron job to run every thirty seconds of one of our servers. It was a minor thing to fix and they did it purely out of ignorance but it still caused the server to slow down until we ID'd the problem and killed the spawning of those jobs.

I know such a feature would not prevent a shell user from going around it but the shell users normally have a bit more knowledge about such things and wouldn't do somthing like that "by accident".

TIA

 

[dannygoh]

I also need this feature and limited how many cron per users. A user of mym setup 10+ cronjob every minutes.

 

[nobaloney]

I'm a bit curious how to set up a cron job to run every thirty seconds. My understanding is that cron runs every minute. So I don't know how to do that.

Thanks.

Jeff

 

[jmstacey]

I'm a bit curious how to set up a cron job to run every thirty seconds. My understanding is that cron runs every minute.

I was wondering the same thing.

DA could always replace the text input boxes for drop down boxes with minutes hours etc.
But that would severely limit the range of functionality (such as every 13 minutes, or every other minute)...

 

[webquarry]

True. I would favor an approach that range-checks the user-input against a limit set perhaps in the Administrator settings area of DA or so....