dcron - dillon's lightweight cron daemon

This is a continuation of Matt Dillon's beautifully minimalist dcron. At first I had written a fork (yacron), but Matt has handed over maintainership of the main dcron branch, so all of yacron was merged into dcron 4.0.

The biggest changes in v4.0 are syslogging and a variety of anacron-like features. If you use this version of dcron, you shouldn't have any further need for anacron.

More specifically, dcron can now:

• log to syslog or a file
• email job output to a remote addresses, instead of the local user who owns the job (so it works with lightweight mail handlers like msmtp, which don't route mail to local users).
• replace sendmail with any other script to which all job output should be piped
• various crontab syntax extensions, including @daily and @reboot and more finer-grained frequency specifiers. See manpages for details.

The current version is: dcron-4.4.tar.gz, released 18-Jan-2010.

See the README | crond manpage | crontab manpage | CHANGELOG | git repository.

See the arch forum announcement thread | dcron package in arch repos | dcron-git package at aur | arch bugtracker for "cron".