Z3c.recipe.usercrontab is a project mainly written in Python, based on the View license.
User Crontab install buildout recipe
When deploying applications, it can be useful to have maintenance
tasks be started periodically. On Unix platforms this is usually done
using cron which starts cronjobs. Adding cronjobs to the
system-wide cron directory (for example by placing a file in
/etc/cron.d) can be handled using the zc.recipe.deployment
package, but it does not support adding cronjobs by normal
users. (as /etc/cron.d usually is world-writable).
z3c.recipe.usercrontab interfaces with cron using crontab(1),
and allows normal users to install their own cronjobs. This is done by
having buildout add and remove cronjobs when installing and
uninstalling packages.
To use z3c.recipe.usercrontab you need to add the following to
your buildout.cfg::
[mycronjob] recipe = z3c.recipe.usercrontab times = 0 12 * command = echo nothing happens at noon
and finally add mycronjob to the parts line(s) of your
buildout.cfg
Original authors: Jasper Spaans and Jan-Jaap Driessen at The Health Agency <http://www.thehealthagency.com>_.
Most recent versions: Reinout van Rees <http://reinout.vanrees.org>, also
at The Health Agency <http://www.thehealthagency.com>