Sometimes when working on things for Gentoo I encounter problems; sometimes poeple disagree with me *gasp*. I think one of the important parts of working with others is in fact finding a solution that satisfies everyone and working with the other team to find a decent solution.

In this case I wanted to cron a job on dev.gentoo.org; however normal developers don’t get cronjobs. So I ask Infra to let me use cron and they said no. I think I over-reacted at this point; mostly because I couldn’t get a good ‘why’ out of them. I ended up dropping it knowing I could think about it later; lo and behold it came up again on irc and someone had a great suggestion; a fakecron script that basically run a bunch of scripts and then slept for a while, then ran then again in a big loop.

Ghetto? yes, however I was never looking for anything fancy. I just wanted a script to generate userinfo.xml on a daily basis and this fakecron script works for me (complete with e-mail error messages if I *really* want them. It also seemed to work for Infra (plus them telling me to nice the process which was also good). So both parties satisfied; the outcome I love to see ;)