sysutils/fcron 3.2.1_2 DragonFly

Periodic command scheduler

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv2
Categories: sysutils
Package size: 155.7 KiB, 635.6 KiB installed

Description

Fcron is a scheduler. It aims at replacing Vixie Cron, so it implements most of its functionalities. But contrary to Vixie Cron, fcron does not need your system to be up 7 days a week, 24 hours a day: it also works well with systems which are not running neither all the time nor regularly (contrary to anacrontab). To do so, fcron allows you to use the standard mode in which you tell it to execute one command at a given date and hour and to make it run a command according to its time of execution, which is normally the same as system uptime.

This is the stable release.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

sysutils/fcron

3.2.1_2

FreeBSD

sysutils/fcron

3.2.1_2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install fcron

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/sysutils/fcron && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

To enable fcron, and disable the default system cron, add the following lines
to your /etc/rc.conf:

	fcron_enable="YES"
	cron_enable="NO"

and move any jobs in /etc/crontab to the root fcrontab(5) file. See:

/usr/local/share/examples/fcron

for a translation of the default FreeBSD /etc/crontab, and for sample PAM
configuration files.