dcron
dillon's lightweight cron daemon (by dubiousjim)
systemd-cron
systemd units to run cron scripts (by systemd-cron)
dcron | systemd-cron | |
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1 | 4 | |
121 | 143 | |
- | 1.4% | |
2.8 | 9.3 | |
about 2 months ago | 11 days ago | |
C | C++ | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dcron
Posts with mentions or reviews of dcron.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-04.
systemd-cron
Posts with mentions or reviews of systemd-cron.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-08.
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systemd.timer, an alternative to cron
Okay, sorry, that was a third-party program I was thinking about https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron
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Can I put multiple cronjobs in one systemd service-timer pair?
Perhaps use something like systemd-crontab-generator? That way you could keep writing Cron config files as normal, but have them automatically converted to corresponding systemd units.
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Schedule Cronjob for the First Monday of Every Month, the Funky Way
systemd can also manage running your cron scripts itself, with `systemd-cron`
https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron
- Prevent duplicate cron job running
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dcron and systemd-cron you can also consider the following projects:
cronn - cron service with extras