Any other alternative to at

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 08:37 -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to easily schedule jobs using a tool other than `at`.
> Directly modifying crontab is not an option as it is too cumbersome.
> Does anybody know alternatives to `at`? Thanks.

Could you tell us WHY you don't want to use "at"? Scheduling jobs is
exactly and precisely what it is designed to do!

If the precise time when they run is not important, but they do need to
run regularly, you could drop jobs - any old executables - into
/etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily/ etc/cron.weekly or
/etc/cron.monthly.

If you need different frequencies, look at how cron runs those jobs,
and set up your own directory and cron job to run the things in it.
Just adding jobs to the directory will make cron run them. If they
should only run once, either make them self-removing, or make your cron
job clear the directory after running everything in it.

This is a bit of work, but only has to be done once.

If you are OK with it being a bit interactive, this sort of thing is
very lo-tech but will run your program an hour later:

    sleep 3600 ; myprog

If you want something pointy-clicky, google it; there seem to be  few
crontab GUIs.

Regards, K.

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> Regards,
> Peng
> 

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