Hi!
I just rewrote my pe program and made a debian package. Here is what it's
for:
pe is meant to be a simple replacement for cron(8) on sysÂ
tems that don't run 24 hours a day. On such systems, you
can't normally specify a certain time when a job is to be
executed. If you use pe you don't specify a time to run a
command but how often the command should be executed. This
period is given in days.
Normally, pe is started after bootup. Since you probably
don't want all your jobs running at the same time directly
after bootup (that's the time when you normally log in and
start your programs) you can specify a delay in minutes.
pe waits this long before starting your program.
pe has its own log files the tell it, when the jobs were
executed last time so it always knows, which jobs it has
to run.
Best way of using pe is to add a cron entry that starts pe
right after midnight, so in case your system is running
for several days, the jobs still get executed on the right
intervall.
If this is useful for others too, I want to include it in the Debian
distribution. I just tried to upload it to ftp.debian.org, but there is a
note, that uploads should go to the /home/Debian/... directory which
doesn't exist and I didn't had permissions to enter the
/pub/debian/project/Incoming directory.
So for now I had just placed it on my web space. Every one can get it via
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/pe_0.2-1_all.deb
and the source is
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/pe_0.2-1.tar.gz
Just contact me about bugs, spelling or grammar errors, or about any
future enhancements.
It would be nice if someone can give me some hints about how it can be
included in the main distrib. Yes, I read all the FAQs/HOWTOs but they
seem pretty old and I didn't find any information.
Cheers,
Chris
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