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 1.27. 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 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).