Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
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Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#2Hi Guys, I've been developing minicron as part of my dissertation at university and I'm at the stage now where I need to get as much feedback as possible so I can evaluate the success of my project in general. I'd really appreciate any comments/feedback you have, be it on the code, documentation, idea in general or anything else you think is relevant. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#3Hi Guys, I've been developing minicron as part of my dissertation at university and I'm at the stage now where I need to get as much feedback as possible so I can evaluate the success of my project in general. I'd really appreciate any comments/feedback you have, be it on the code, documentation, idea in general or anything else you think is relevant. Thanks!
Looks great! Testing it later :)
Could you write a bit more about the Hub/CLI architecture? is the CLI pushing the output data to a publicly available Hub?
Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#4Hi Guys, I've been developing minicron as part of my dissertation at university and I'm at the stage now where I need to get as much feedback as possible so I can evaluate the success of my project in general. I'd really appreciate any comments/feedback you have, be it on the code, documentation, idea in general or anything else you think is relevant. Thanks!
Looks great! Testing it later :) Could you write a bit more about the Hub/CLI architecture? is the CLI pushing the output data to a publicly available Hub?
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!
Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#5Oh yes. This looks FANTASTIC. I started writing a similar thing before, but was very basic and I gave up after realising the crontab could not made group writable. I struggled to think of a way to get around that and of course, SSH to the rescue. I very much look forward to testing this out later. Top work!
Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#6Oh yes. This looks FANTASTIC. I started writing a similar thing before, but was very basic and I gave up after realising the crontab could not made group writable. I struggled to think of a way to get around that and of course, SSH to the rescue. I very much look forward to testing this out later. Top work!
Yeah the crontab permissions are a bit of a pain and thanks :)
Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#7Jenkins is your friend here.
however this does look very sexy.
Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#8Jenkins is your friend here. however this does look very sexy.
I did have a look at what Jenkins offers plus if you're already using it for CI then that might be easier I agree. And thanks :)
Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#9Great idea! Also see if there's anything you want to steal/borrow from Chronos - http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos/
Re: Show HN: minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs
#10Nice, I will give the feedback as soon as I test it (later today). By the way, I was recently looking for a crontab manager like this and didn't find any, seems like a tool that was missing.