[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

[Martin Vaeth]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> But cron has only one event trigger: wall-clock time. And it's a very
> blunt weapon. I'm looking for recommendations of alternative schedulers
> that satisfy real-world business needs that need some other event
> trigger than what the time is right now.

I had a similar need recently, and since the discussion in

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-992780-highlight-.html

had led to nothing satisfactory for me, I have written a
scheduler tool which serves my needs
(which might very well differ from yours...):

The corresponding tool is still in beta testing phase:
https://github.com/vaeth/schedule/

You can install it from the mv overlay (available over layman).