Open Source Unix Shell Cron and Job Scheduler Software

BashCronBackup is a backup script written in bash that can create full database and file backups. Before the database is dumped it will be optimized and repaired. Further, it will delete old backups for you. Available formats: Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2

Balance your jobs between many nodes add or remove nodes editing only one line on your crontab, redistribute automatically the jobs of a dead node and tune your parameters to balance jobs on server with different hardware spec.

A set of functions for KSH and BASH in a sourceable file. Typical functions include calculating differences between dates, going forward or back any number of days. Works for dates AD only. Some issues will arise when today > 2099...

LARDY [Log Archiver and Rotator on DailY basis] is an easily configurable script used for archiving ANY application logs on daily basis with rotating capability and logging of the archiving itself. Also used for archiving on-the-fly [no loss of data].

This is a parametric bash script that you can set up to run at startup or as a cron job in each one of your server. Each time the server will boot up or execute the script an automatic API call will be created to create if not existent, or update if necessary the related DNS record hosted on Rackspace Cloud. Please refer to: http://docs.rackspace.com/cdns/api/v1.0/cdns-devguide/content/index.html

Execute scheduled commands without assuming that the machine runs permanently. vdcron is a cron, but it's light and does not require specific software or libraries. It can be triggered by root and standard accounts