runcronjobs 0.2

runcronjobs is a script to run centralized cron jobs.

runcronjobs processes the execution of centralized cron jobs for a pool of servers. The cron jobs are any executable files (scripts and binaries). runcronjobs runs cronjobs located in a given directory if the current host is specified as a target host for this jobs (see directives bellow). This allows to centralize all the cron jobs of a set of servers in a common shared directory.

Here are some key features of "runcronjobs":

· notification by mail on each invocation

The mail report begins with a global summary for all the jobs : timestamp of the begin of execution, timestamp of the end, elapsed time, return code, following by the output of each of them (and optionnal additionnal informations).

· capabilities of parallelization for jobs executions
· optionnal delay before execution

COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS

The command line arguments are :

-v --verbose : verbose level

-d --debug : debug level

-n --dry-run : dry run, don't execute jobs

-f --foreground : jobs are no threaded

--no-sleep : sleep directives are ignored

--no-mail : don't send mail

-h hostname : simule execution from this host

-c config_file : use an alternate configuration file (default is runcronjobs.conf located in the executable directory or, if not found, in /etc)

Requirements:

· Perl
· MIME::Entity
· Config::General
· Config::General::Extended
· Dir::Which
· Set::Groups



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