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Command Schedulers

KCron – graphical front end to the standard cron utility

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KCron is a KDE graphical cron task editor for Linux, offering recurring schedules, environment settings and straightforward task management.

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Command Schedulers

KTimer – execute programs after a specified time

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KTimer schedules commands and programs after a chosen countdown, with repeat timers, consecutive tasks and multiple jobs in a KDE interface.

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Command Schedulers

FcronQ – Fcron GUI

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

FcronQ is an Fcron GUI for Linux. Fcron is an advanced periodic command scheduler. This is free and open source software.

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Command Schedulers

Zeit – Qt frontend to crontab and at

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Zeit provides a Qt interface to crontab and at, helping Linux users manage recurring tasks, one-off jobs, alarms and environment variables.

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Command Schedulers

GNOME Schedule – graphical user interface (GUI) tool that leverages the power of cron

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Schedule is a graphical front end for the ‘crontab’ and ‘at’ tools. GNOME Schedule is free and open source software.

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Command Schedulers

Gcron – handles your cron configuration

August 29, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Gcron is a graphical frontend for cron. This tool handles your cron configuration. It’s written in the Vala language.

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Command Schedulers

mcron – replacement for Vixie cron

August 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mcron (Mellor’s cron) is a 100% compatible replacement for Vixie cron. It’s free and open source software written in Scheme.

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Command Schedulers

Jobber – run commands to a schedule

August 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jobber is a utility for Unix-like systems that can run arbitrary commands, or “jobs”, according to a schedule.

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Command Schedulers

cronie – daemon to run scheduled commands

August 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools.

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Command Schedulers

fcron – daemon to run scheduled tasks

August 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fcron is a scheduler. It aims at replacing Vixie Cron, so it implements most of its functionality. Free and open source software.

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Command Schedulers

bcron – cron system

August 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bcron is a cron system designed with secure operations in mind. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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Command Schedulers

anacron – periodic command scheduler

August 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Anacron is a periodic command scheduler. It executes commands at intervals specified in days.

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Command Schedulers

systemd – array of system components

August 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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