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#1 2012-04-28 18:46:34

Lockheed
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[solved] cron alternative

I have cron up and running with various scripts being executed regularly.

However, this a laptop and it is not always running. I would like to scripts that were scheduled to run while the laptop was off to be executed upon system start (say, 10 minutes after system start). How can I achieve it and do I have to move all the cron scripts to this cron alternative?

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#2 2012-04-28 19:14:44

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Re: [solved] cron alternative

ArchWiki reads:
If you regularly turn off your computer but do not want to miss jobs, there are some solutions available (easiest to hardest):

Asynchronous job processing

Does it help?


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#3 2012-04-28 19:16:11

Lockheed
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Re: [solved] cron alternative

I found cronwhip. It looks like exactly what I was looking for.

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#4 2012-04-28 19:18:20

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Re: [solved] cron alternative

Cronwhip was mentioned in the WiKi (option 2)...


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#5 2012-04-28 19:23:22

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Re: [solved] cron alternative

Afaik the default cron in Arch already does this and comes with anacron.

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#6 2012-04-28 23:33:21

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Re: [solved] cron alternative

I've found fcron to suit my needs on a single-user PC.  Like anacron, fcron assumes the computer is not always running and, unlike anacron, it can schedule events at intervals shorter than a single day.  Like cronwhip, it can run jobs that should have been run during the computer's downtime.  http://fcron.free.fr/index.php

When I installed it from the community repo, the switch from cronie was painless.  The pseudo-user, 'systab', was created to own the cron jobs in /etc/cron.hourly, cron.daily, etc.  I didn't have to do any reconfiguration for the 'system-owned' cron jobs: very "Ooh, nice!"  http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Fcron

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#7 2012-11-29 16:44:23

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Re: [solved] cron alternative

For those wanting to get fcron in pair with systemd, these two exemples might be usefull:
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sy … n.devel/66
- Arch FS#31248 - [fcron] Use foreground mode in systemd service file

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