farhan5900 / crontabpy

An alternative of cron

CRONTAB-PY

Description

Read file defined by crontab and run job according to the specified schedule.

Crontab module for reading crontab file. Schedule module for scheduling the jobs.

Field Name	Mandatory	Allowed Values	Special Characters	Extra Values
Minutes	Yes	0-59	* / , -	< >
Hours	Yes	0-23	* / , -	< >
Day of month	Yes	1-31	* / , -	< >
Month	Yes	1-12 or JAN-DEC	* / , -	< >
Day of week	Yes	0-6 or SUN-SAT	* / , -	< >

Extra Values are '<' for minimum value, such as 0 for minutes or 1 for months. And '>' for maximum value, such as 23 for hours or 12 for months.

Supported special cases allow crontab lines to not use fields. These are the supported aliases which are not available in SystemV mode:

Case	Meaning
@reboot	Every boot
@hourly	0 * * * *
@daily	0 0 * * *
@weekly	0 0 * * 0
@monthly	0 0 1 * *
@yearly	0 0 1 1 *
@annually	0 0 1 1 *
@midnight	0 0 * * *