mtik00 / cronner

Yet another crontab-like replacement for Windows Task Scheduler

Hey, I'm mtik00

I've been a software engineer for almost 30 years now. I've mainly been focused on test automation, but I've also had a lot of experience in DevSecOps/SRE/Platform/etc, docker/k8s, ci/cd, and much more.

My favorite language is 🐍, by a long shot! A good friend always says:

Python is the second best language for every problem.

I totally agree.

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cronner's Issues

--echo duplicates line ending

--echo uses "print", but it doesn't remove the line ending from stdout. For example:

  INFO -  - 0%

  INFO -  - 10%

  INFO -  - 20%

  INFO -  - 30%

  INFO -  - 40%

should be echoed (and logged) as:

INFO -  - 0%
INFO -  - 10%
INFO -  - 20%
INFO -  - 30%
INFO -  - 40%

variable expansion

Add variable expansion to the JSON job format to act like environment variables.

Document JSON format

Remove the format documentation from the README and create a proper place in Sphinx.

wrong markdown in README.md

There is a link in RST format.

Add unit tests

pypi

Add documentation for installing from Pypi

echo job run

Add an option for echoing the job run to the screen.

Add proper Windows service

It would be nice to not have to add a cronner batch file to the Task Manage,r and get rid of Task Manager all together.

Interactive Mode

Sometimes I want to force a job to happen, regardless of when its next schedule run is.

There are two options:

1. Copy the command out of the conf file (may be a pain because of variables
2. I could add a menu driven option (print job, ask 'run this?', print next job, etc)

I suggest I implement the second option, since it would be pretty easy. Something like:
python -m cronner --interactive

Don't Pause or Show Welcome Back On --help

Along the same lines as #13, don't pause or display "Welcome back" if the user sends in "--help".

That's just silly.

Add timing data to output

As it is, there's no way of knowing how long cronner took from start to finish, nor when it started, nor when it finished!

It would be nice to see that listed on the output so it's available after the sleep occurs.

creating new db doesn't work

Calling python -m cronner --cache-file XXX produces the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "c:\users\tim\dropbox\code\python\cronner\src\cronner\__main__.py", line 103, in <module>
    cache = get_cache(os.path.join(args.cache_file))
  File "c:\users\tim\dropbox\code\python\cronner\src\cronner\cache.py", line 31, in get_cache
    _init(config_file)
  File "c:\users\tim\dropbox\code\python\cronner\src\cronner\cache.py", line 25, in _init
    CACHE = Cache(cache_file)
  File "c:\users\tim\dropbox\code\python\cronner\src\cronner\cache.py", line 47, in __init__
    self._create()
  File "c:\users\tim\dropbox\code\python\cronner\src\cronner\cache.py", line 62, in _create
    self.cur.execute('''
AttributeError: Cache instance has no attribute 'cur'

Fix usage documentation

The documentation was not updated when argparse was added.

Add sleep after jobs complete

I would be handy for me to be able to sleep my Windows PC after all jobs have completed.

Change .bat to go right to pause if not sleeping

Quick gripe. If you use --no-sleep while running the batch file, it says "Welcome Back". It really shouldn't.

Note: The .bat isn't actually in the code, but it's in the documentation.