Sailcron

Warning regarding SailfishOS upgrades:

to prevent any misbehavior of the cron daemon, please stop the daemon before starting any OS upgrade

Frontend for the cron scheduler. Makes it easy to view your schedules in a more friendly way.

Also gives the opportunity to fully manage crontabs of nemo and root. The usual warning: always be careful with root permissions. Disabling is achieved by adding a specific comment string in the cron entry.

Displayed commands can be replaced by a more meaningful text.

Using cron-descriptor for the conversion of cron expressions into human readable strings.

Using python-crontab for the cron timestring syntax check.

Needs vixie-cron or cronie as cron daemon, which can be found in my repo.

Loading a large crontab can cause some unresponsiveness.

If you want to play more with the crontab syntax, you can have a try here: http://www.corntab.com/pages/crontab-gui

Why use cron as a scheduler?

• Stable, simple and well known
• Low on resources and a wakelock only every minute does not really effect battery usage
• Systemd timers are not accurate, because they are effected by sleep states
• Timed-qt5 (the "native" scheduling) would have been another option. I worked with something similar on Maemo, which I liked, but was missing documentation and implemented features

Swedish translation: eson

Sources can be found on github