Hello Monks,

I seek your wisdom and forgiveness for staying anonymous (but not your wisdom for staying anonymous). Alas Create a new user says it's broken.

I need some kind of job framework for downloading files from a server. The file names of the files to download come over a socket or pipe (I'm not decided yet but I lean towards the pipe because the process currently uses files).

The following features should be supported:

• sorting of jobs by priority (some files may come later but are more important than others)
• retry a few times on error with a delay of a few minutes (e.g. connection problems)
• sending error mails if a job still fails (e.g. file not found)
• logging
• optionally support for commands via the same pipe or socket that allows configuration and printing of status messages

I am oh so tempted to write it myself and I already started (hell, the basic framework isn't even 50 lines) but adding those mentioned features made me think whether I should do this myself and risking a lot of subtle bugs. So I had a look or two at CPAN and found some modules like BatchSystem::SBS or TheSchwartz but they all seem to be very light-weight leaving a lot of work still open.

Is there any solution that comes a bit closer to my desired feature set?

Thanks