uschedule
uschedule is a job scheduler aimed to replace cron and at. It is secure by design. Unsafe concepts like set-user-id and set-group-id files and programs, communication between programs of different privilege levels, etc. have been removed.
| Tags | Systems Administration |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
Recent releases
- 16 Aug 2004 05:23
Changes: This release fixes the uschedulelist --short display bug, introduces an option to repeat a job after some time interval, and adds a tool to limit the run time of a job.
- 04 Mar 2003 03:08
Changes: This release fixes a major security problem in uscheduleconf that allowed insecure configurations to be created, allowing local users to gain root rights. Users with older configurations should check them and update to this version.
- 29 Oct 2002 02:47
Changes: The manual pages are now installed properly.
- 16 Oct 2002 08:19
Changes: Jobs may now have a start/end date/time restriction, allowing for specifications like "on every Tuesday, between February and March." Some minor bugs were also fixed.
- 18 Nov 2001 08:19
Changes: A number of self-check and installation related problems have been fixed. There is no reason to upgrade if older versions worked for you.
- All comments
Recent commentsis this really GPL ?
looking at version 0.7.1 I can't find any license information. Is this really GPL software ?
Suggestion for addition to docs
After installing uschedule according to the docs, I tried adding/deleting jobs. I found that the uschedulerm command kept failing with the message "could not open_write fifo: device not configured". It took me a long time looking through the source, but it turns out that the answer is that the uscheduled daemon was not running.
You might want to add a mention to the installation docs that tells people to start the uscheduled daemon before trying to use the programs.