[Taskforest-discuss] Suppressing passed runs for jobs using "every" when TaskForest has been down

[Fredrik E. <fe...@ds...>]

Dear TaskForest users and developers,

I've been evaluating TaskForest as a solution for one of our clients and the
down to basics approach really appeals to me.

However, I have a question that I haven't been able to answer during my
evaluation. This case concerns a very frequent job with a family that looks
like this:

---FAM1
| start => '00:01', tz => 'Europe/Stockholm', days =>
'Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun'
|
| myfrequentjob(every => '5', until => '23:59')
---

I want the job to run every five minutes, always. This one is a bit extreme
but we have a few of these jobs but which will have a lesser frequency and a
different until time.

My problem is that if, for some reason (maybe the machine was down),
TaskForest has not been running for half a day and is then started, I would
like recurring jobs like this to pick up where we are now and just start
running every five minutes.

This is not the way TaskForest handles it, I find that my "myfrequentjob"
might run a hundred times (depending on when I start TaskForest of course),
to catch up for missed runs, until it settles into the five minute
frequency.

My questions to you are:

1) Have I missed something, is it possible to suppress job with a passed run
time, for a recurring job (one that uses "every")?

2) Is there another way of handling this situation within TaskForest? Of
course I could use cron, but that would mean I had to monitor these jobs
separately and I wouldn't see the full picture in TaskForest.

Thanks for your time.

Regards
Fredrik Engberg