A better cron alternative, written in go to learn and practise
Just run install.sh script located on the root of the repository (still not on point)
For manual installation, download the latest release and decompress the tar.gz file (lines done for amd64 arch, adapt it for your processor architecture)
curl -l https://github.com/marcsanchezg/bettercron/releases/download/v0.0.3/bettercron_0.0.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz /tmp/bettercron.tar.gz
tar -xvzf /tmp/bettercron.tar.gzWe're gonna create a user for running bettercron as, it will automatically create a username, with no login and with sudo permissions
sudo useradd -m -s /usr/sbin/nologin -G sudo -p "$(openssl passwd -1 '')" bettercronThe next step is to create a config directory and a log file plus adding permissions to it
# Copy binary
sudo cp "/tmp/bettercron/bettercron" "/usr/bin/bettercron"
sudo chown bettercron:bettercron "/usr/bin/bettercron"
sudo chmod +x "/usr/bin/bettercron"
# Create config file and directory
sudo mkdir -p "/etc/bettercron"
sudo cp "/tmp/bettercron/example/config.yaml" "/etc/bettercron/config.yaml"
sudo chown -R bettercron:bettercron "/etc/bettercron"We're gonna copy bettercron.service and enable it
# Create systemd service
sudo cp "/tmp/bettercron/example/bettercron.service" "/etc/systemd/system/bettercron.service"
# Enable and start the service
sudo systemctl enable bettercron.service
sudo systemctl start bettercron.service> bettercron --help
Usage of bettercron:
-config string
Define yaml file location (default "/etc/bettercron/config.yaml")
-help
Show help information
-log string
Define log file location (default "/var/log/bettercron.log")
