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Source: snooze
Maintainer: nicoo <nicoo@debian.org>
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Standards-Version: 4.5.1
Homepage: https://git.vuxu.org/snooze/about/
Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/snooze
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/snooze.git
Rules-Requires-Root: no
Package: snooze
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: run a command at a particular time
`snooze` is a tool for waiting until a particular time and then
running a command. Together with a service supervision system such as
runit, this can be used to replace cron(8).
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Benefits over cron:
- mnemonic syntax
- no overlapping job runs possible
- filtering by ISO week and day of year
- due to supervision, no centralized daemon required
- due to supervision, can easily disable jobs or force their
execution instantly
- due to supervision, have custom logs
- due to no centralized daemon, no fuzzing with multiple users/permissions
- very robust with respect to external time changes
- can use a file timestamp to ensure minimum waiting time between two
runs, even across reboots
- randomized delays (some cron have that)
- variable slack (no need for anacron)
- ad-hoc usage possible, just run the program from command line
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Benefits over runwhen:
- less confusing usage (arguably)
- filtering by ISO week and day of year
- zero dependencies
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Benefits over uschedule:
- no centralized daemon required
- filtering by ISO week and day of year
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