sysutils/mcron 1.2.3_1
100% compatible replacement for Vixie cron
- Repository
- FreeBSD ports
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- License
- GPLv3
- Categories
- sysutils
- Package size
- 487.4 KiB, 2770.5 KiB installed
Description
The mcron program represents a complete re-think of the cron concept originally found in the Berkeley and AT&T unices, and subsequently rationalized by Paul Vixie. The original idea was to have a daemon that wakes up every minute, scans a set of files under a special directory, and determines from those files if any shell commands should be executed in this minute.
The new idea is to read the required command instructions, work out which command needs to be executed next, and then sleep until the inferred time has arrived. On waking the commands are run, and the time of the next command is computed. Furthermore, the specifications are written in scheme, allowing at the same time simple command execution instructions and very much more flexible ones to be composed than the original Vixie format. This has several useful advantages over the original idea.
Install
As a binary package — by origin, or by package name:
pkg install sysutils/mcron
pkg install mcronFrom the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/mcron/ && make install cleanTo depend on this port in another port's Makefile:
RUN_DEPENDS= mcron>0:sysutils/mcronPackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | aarch64 | amd64 | armv6 | armv7 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD:14:latest | 1.2.3_1 | 1.2.3_1 | 1.2.1_1 | - | 1.2.3_1 |
| FreeBSD:14:quarterly | 1.2.3_1 | 1.2.3_1 | n/a | - | 1.2.3_1 |
| FreeBSD:15:latest | 1.2.3_1 | 1.2.3_1 | n/a | - | - |
| FreeBSD:15:quarterly | 1.2.3_1 | 1.2.3_1 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:latest | 1.2.3_1 | 1.2.3_1 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:quarterly | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Dependencies
The Makefile names none itself; they come from USES and USE_*.
The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.
All build dependencies 12
All run dependencies 10
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
No options to configure.
- USES
- gmake guile:3.0 pkgconfig
- Service scripts
- none
- Conflicts with
- interchange isc-cron
Message after installing
===> NOTICE: The mcron port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla More information about port maintainership is available at: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing
Files
Manual pages 3
- cron(8)
- crontab(1)
- mcron(1)
pkg-plist 38
- bin/crontab
- bin/mcron
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/base.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/command-line-processor.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/config.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/core.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/environment.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/getopt-long.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/job-specifier.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/redirect.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/scripts/cron.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/scripts/crontab-access.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/scripts/crontab.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/scripts/mcron.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/utils.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/vixie-specification.go
- %%GUILE_SITE_CCACHE%%/mcron/vixie-time.go
- libexec/crontab-access-real
- share/man/man1/crontab.1.gz
- share/man/man1/mcron.1.gz
- share/man/man8/cron.8.gz
- sbin/cron
- sbin/crontab-access
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/base.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/command-line-processor.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/config.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/core.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/environment.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/getopt-long.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/job-specifier.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/redirect.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/scripts/cron.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/scripts/crontab-access.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/scripts/crontab.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/scripts/mcron.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/utils.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/vixie-specification.scm
- %%GUILE_SITE%%/mcron/vixie-time.scm
distinfo 1
| File | Size | SHA256 |
|---|---|---|
| mcron-1.2.3.tar.gz | 377967 | 1bc8c0d362d3b1a30fa0071d7fab696bbfc1da1ed536c42e0480bb9ffd22154e |
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