chronic

A modern UNIX cron daemon.

Features:

• Email reports on job completion.
• Runs jobs for multiple users. Assumes the appropriate user ident for each.
• Can run in root mode to execute system cron jobs
• Efficient, lazy updates. New crontabs are synced and scheduled within 60 seconds.
• Domain socket-based API for querying crontabs and job states.
• Atomic daemon with singleton support and signal-handling.
• Logging.
• Supports crontabs with environment variables.

Development

1. Make scripts executable chmod -R u+x ./scripts
2. Run boot-dev script ./scripts/boot-dev.sh
3. Tests are in t/. Use make test.
   1. NOTE: Run the integ tests in Docker. Otherwise, the test harness might make a mess of your system. ./scripts/boot-dev.sh will bootstrap the environment, then you can run make integ_test.