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Ausadmin Ausadmin is designed to automate the maintenance of USENET newsgroup hierarchies (such as aus.*) and provide end-users with useful online information regarding all the newsgroups in the hierarchy as well as proposals. Autocheck Autocheck is a GPL system administration tool that monitors unix computers on your network and sends sms-messages or emails to administrators when a problem arises. Autodir Autodir creates directories transparently to the applications accessing them based on available information from sources like password database, group database. Currently it supports creating home directories and group directories. Autodir can be used to create home,group directories for ldap/NIS/SQL unix accounts. Autopoweroff Autopoweroff is a python script that is started at boot time, and which function is to shutdown the computer at a specific time, but only if some conditions are met. Avatar Batch Scheduler (commercial) Avatar Batch Scheduler is a robust batch scheduling application suite, with a highly sophisticated built-in batch scheduler. BQ+ BQ+ is a well established mainframe class Job Scheduling system. Available as FreeWare for LINUX platforms. Chronic Chronic is a constraints-based, opportunistic, application-level scheduler for Unix systems. Unlike traditional schedulers that schedule according to a time and frequency specification, Chronic schedules against arbitrary constraints of user's choice. Createusers Createusers is a console tool for creating users in bulk. cron-apt cron-apt allows users to run apt commands regularly using cron. It includes different settings for error reporting, what to install, etc. cronwrap cronwrap is a utility that offers more control over the execution of a cron job than the standard cron daemon allows. It can ensure and report that the job completes within a specified time period. It can email and/or log any output produced from the job. It reports on the exit status of the job. crun crun is a lightweight, easy to use, simple tool which does the similer job as cron. But it doesn't run like a daemon. It is available for unix like operating systems such as linux and bsd. This tool it written in C. It would come handy when you need execute certain commad over and over again with several time interval inbetween them. For ex. let say you wan't to run netstat -na command 20 times with in time interval of 1 second. Then you can use crun. crun 20 1 netstat -na Diogene87 Diogene87 is a powerful job scheduling system. It features centralized management, jobs dependencies, start conditions, planning, a log of job activity job monitoring, statistics for job durations, and resource control. etc-proposals etc-proposals is a gentoo configuration file updater that, unlike etc-update and dispatch-conf, provides a shell with tabcompletion, a Gtk2 frontend, and a Qt4 frontend. It allows updating of selected fileparts while providing a lot of automation. GNOME Crontab Editor GNOME Crontab Editor is a graphical interface to the crontab program. You can use it to create, delete and edit scheduled tasks using a simple point-and-click interface. GNOME Schedule Gnome-schedule is a GNOME GUI for configuring a users crontab. It was made for Vixie cron whom comes with Fedora Linux, but should work with other cron servers aswell if the format of the config file is similar. GShutdown GShutdown is an advanced shutdown utility which allows you to schedule the shutdown or the restart of your computer, or logout your actual session. JACAL JACAL is a suite of programs, scripts, guidelines, protocols, documentation, diskettes, etc. that assist in quick, network based loads/builds of machines. jobqueue jobqueue is a program for executing jobs in parallel to complete all jobs as quickly as possible. It can be used to distribute a set of jobs to a specific number of processors and/or machines. New jobs are started as older jobs finish. Kroneko Kroneko is a system scheduling utility which uses cron, anacron and at as the backend. LFS-Build LFS-Build automates the process of building the LinuxFromScratch project. It works by first parsing the LFS XML book and generating a large text file containing the commands that need to be run. The second part of the program takes this text file, breaks it down based on package, and then runs the Bash shell with the proper commands to build the package. Linux Test For X Linux Test For X is a "script" based X-Windows GUI automation tool. Its primary purpose is to help assist with creating automated tests in the X environment by driving the X interface. mcron The GNU package mcron (Mellor's cron) is a 100% compatible replacement for Vixie cron. It is written in pure Guile, and allows configuration files to be written in scheme (as well as Vixie's original format) for infinite flexibility in specifying when jobs should be run. Micron Micron aims to replace Vixie Cron, offering the same feature set with fewer security concerns and a smaller memory footprint. Narcisse81 Narcisse81 is a front-end (GTK+) for Diogene87, a powerful job scheduler system. noexcuses Noexcuses is a disaster recovery utility. It makes cron jobs persist when faced with transient remote errors. It makes cron jobs persist across reboots of the local cron host. It identifies and runs cron jobs scheduled while the cron host was down. It can mirror its state to protect the above from disk failure. It supports relocation of cron jobs to another cron host. It lets you report, examine, cancel, and run outstanding cron jobs. pancho Pancho is a Perl based project which allows network administrators to archive device configurations as well as make changes to these remote nodes through the use of SNMP and TFTP. PushOut PushOut is designed for administrators who manage multiple systems and need the ability to run a single script against multiple machines (as root) automatically, without logging into each box independently and without installing any software on the remote system. Queue Queue is a load-balancing system that lets users control their remote jobs in an intuitive, transparent and nearly seamless way. Development versions feature job migration with and without kernel support. Windows support is planned. runcronjobs runcronjobs processes the execution of centralized cron jobs for a pool of servers. The cron jobs are any executable files. runcronjobs runs cron jobs located in a given directory if the current host is specified as a target host for the jobs in question. It allows you to centralize all the cron jobs of a set of servers in a common shared directory. Saturn Saturn is a job scheduler for networks that makes it to control local and remote job scheduling through simple commands similar to crontab, or through a graphical interface. shush shush runs a command and optionally reports its output by mail. It is a useful wrapper around cron jobs. SMiaB (shareware) The System Manager in a Box (SMiaB) is PegaSoft's first release, a tool for easy configuration, tuning and administation of Linux systems. SMiaB performs basic Linux administration tasks such as: reporting configuration problems with common Linux packages, give tuning tips for common Linux packages, giving an overview of activity and job control on a computer, performing daily administration tasks, and running your own regular administration scripts. Tasche The Tasche project is a program which implement tasks schedule system using by Linux configuration tools: Cron and At. Program can create, modify and remove Cron and At jobs. TaskForest TaskForest is a simple but expressive job scheduler that allows you to chain jobs and tasks and to create time dependencies. It uses plain-text configuration files to specify task dependencies. It is designed for use on a single machine. tcron tcron integrates 'cron' with ATX power-up capability. It can do multiple cron jobs with power-up/shutdown a day. UMLazi UMLazi is a management tool for configuring and running User-Mode Linux based virtual machines. By setting a few simple configuration variables, UMLazi can control disk layout, network configuration, memory usage, and processor priority, among other things. VA SystemImager VA SystemImager makes the installation of Linux to masses of similar machines relatively easy. VCRON a graphical interface to cron and at, allowing to view, modify, delete and add programmed actions vixie-cron The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. This clone of vixie-cron adds better security and more powerful configuration options to the standard version of cron. It's used in Fedora, Red Hat Linux, and their successors. This cron can use PAM and SElinux for higher level of security. Xi-Batch (commercial) a flexible general purpose job scheduling and workload control system for standalone and networked UNIX and Linux systems. The system provides seamless, cross-platform operation across networked systems, and offers a variety of user and administrative interfaces in graphical and character modes
