NEnecklace·Feb 20, 2017
Meh, I'd rather use https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron
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🕰️ Monitor your cron jobs
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6 sourcesI just added SQlite support back into master, I'll add it into the next release :) https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron/pull/70
In Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobsThanks for the info on rcron, it sounds like a really useful tool. I think I prefer the approach of rcron wrapping minicron so it doesn't require added complexity to minicron. I've added an issue here for potentially doing this https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron/issues/66 if you want to follow along with the progress.
The fronted is actually all API based, in theory I don't see any reason why external apps couldn't use the API. I'll try and add some documentation for it. I quite like the idea of puppet/chef/whatever defined jobs. When I add permission support to the hub/api you could set up a user for puppet which would have its own API credentials so the API would be able to show who the job was created by. On of the features of the permissions system will most likely be that users can only edit jobs they created unless they are an
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admin or some kind of user with extra privileges. I think this feature would be useful for a lot of people so hopefully it can be added without forking the project!
Logging activity and some kind of revision control is definitely something I've thought about and plan to add in the future. I remember seeing a ruby gem a little while back that could basically track changes to arbitrary ActiveRecord models, that might be useful here. I've added two tickets for this to remind me! https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron/issues/67 + https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron/issues/68
Thanks! :)
Edit: Yeah, so the CLI sends data over HTTP(s) to whatever host you configure it to, that could be public or not. As I've said in https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron#security though until I add authentication to a bunch of places and review some other things I don't recommend exposing the hub to the public internet, it should be behind a firewall or only accessible over a VPN etc. Hopefully that clears it up a bit but let me know if not!
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