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A cron daemon written in golang

Features

• system crontab (with username inside)
• user crontabs (without username inside)
• run-parts support
• Logging to STDOUT and STDERR
• Keep current environment (eg. for usage in Docker containers)
• Supports Linux, MacOS, ARM/ARM64 (Rasbperry Pi and others)
• Email notification

Usage

Usage:
  go-crond

Application Options:
      --threads=            Number of parallel executions (default: 20)
      --configfile=         Include configfile email notifications
      --default-user=       Default user (default: root)
      --include=            Include files in directory as system crontabs (with user)
      --allow-unprivileged  Allow daemon to run as non root (unprivileged) user
  -v, --verbose             verbose mode
  -h, --help                show this help message

Examples

Run crond with a system crontab:

go-crond examples/crontab

Run crond with user crontabs (without user in it) under specific users:

go-crond \
    root:examples/crontab-root \ 
    guest:examples/crontab-guest

Run crond with auto include of /etc/cron.d and script execution of hourly, weekly, daily and monthly:

go-crond \
    --include=/etc/cron.d \
    --run-parts-hourly=/etc/cron.hourly \
    --run-parts-weekly=/etc/cron.weekly \
    --run-parts-daily=/etc/cron.daily \
    --run-parts-monthly=/etc/cron.monthly

Run crond with run-parts with custom time spec:

go-crond \
    --run-parts=1m:/etc/cron.minute \
    --run-parts=15m:/etc/cron.15min

Run crond with run-parts with custom time spec and different user:

go-crond \
    --run-parts=1m:application:/etc/cron.minute \
    --run-parts=15m:admin:/etc/cron.15min

License

Open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.