karlicoss/dron
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What if cron and systemd had a baby?
4 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-05-16 · latest 2026-06-02
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…(though at 100s of jobs, I hope you're generating those unit files with a tool like Puppet or https://github.com/karlicoss/dron or something and not doing this by hand). 2. Even better, just use a lockfile. `ExecStart="flock -F…
comment by zbentley · 2026-06-02 · in Love systemd timers -
…a config that looks kinda like a crontab, but uses systemd (or launchd on mac) behind the scenes: https://github.com/karlicoss/dron#what-does-it-do E.g. a simplest job definition looks like this job(every(mins=10), 'ping…
comment by karlicoss · 2023-10-14 · in Fcron Is the Best Cron -
…thing is very flexible. You can read more about it here: - https://beepb00p.xyz/scheduler.html - https://github.com/karlicoss/dron#what-does-it-do I've been using this tool for several year now, with hundreds of different jobs across 3…
comment by karlicoss · 2022-12-08 · in Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron -
…me to declare jobs as python code living in the same file -- combines best bits of systemd and cron https://github.com/karlicoss/dron#readme . I elaborate a bit more on motivation for it on my blog https://beepb00p.xyz/scheduler.html
comment by karlicoss · 2021-05-16 · in Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?