Cron Jobs

Jobs that are meant to be run by a scheduler like CRON.

reminder 1.44 [directory]

This program issues notifications about user-defined events. It is typically run as a cron job and delivers its reminders via mail. An event is a combination of a date, a list of triggers and an arbitrary text. The text contains the message describing the event. The triggers define when a reminder notification is to be issued. For the sake of flexibility, repetitive events can be defined by using wildcards.

run-single 1.01 [directory]

run-single ensures that there is at most one instance of a certain command running at any given time. This can be helpful if the command is run by a scheduler like cron that spawns new instances whenever a job is due no matter if the last instance is still running.