How to schedule server jobs more intelligently than with cron?
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I run a job every minute to reindex my site's content.
Today, the search engine died, and when I logged in there were hundreds of orphan processes that had been started by cron.
Is there another way using some kind of existing software that will let me execute a job every minute, but that won't launch another instance if that job doesn't return (i.e. because the search engine process has failed)?
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