setup queue (feature suggestion?)

[Vlad Sedov]

hello - 

as much as i hate stealing ideas from other billing systems.... ;)
a few billing packages have a "setup queue" facility - 

basically, any time you add/delete/modify an account, a web site, or whatever else - the script appends an entry to the queue (could just be another SQL table) with appropriate service information, like username, password, shell, gecos, etc...

the servers check the queue periodically to see if there are new services to be set up or reconfigured, and if there are, they run a specified script to make appropriate modifications. If modification is successful, the entry is removed from the queue. Otherwise, the queue entry is put back into the queue, and marked as unsuccessful, which the admin could revise later and make manual corrections.

i'm not bashing the SSH method, but it just seems like this process would be slightly less memory/cpu-intensive, not to mention the fact that it would be pretty easy to implement.



also, i have a question - would freeside's speed improve any if it were run using mod_perl?

thanks

Vlad

P.S. Ivan, you're doing a great job -- it takes guts to write a billing system that works :) ... i've looked at CBMS, and a few others, but they are severely lacking in functionality. there are even a few commercial packages that quite frankly suck.