event-cron

A GO program which runs traditional way of cron job and also supports http based event triggers to run tasks

Configuration

There are two Configuration involved one which configures the server and other which listing the Jobs

• config/config.json
• config/cronjob

Server config

This is a JSON file containing information about server host and port, log level, and cronjob file path

Cronjob config

The cron module is based on github.com/robfig/cron following is the usage.

Cron spec format

• The "standard" cron format, described on the Cron wikipedia page and used by the cron Linux system utility.

Event spec format

• An Event is defined by double @@ symbol followed by command to execute for example

      @@my-event ls -lrt
  

• The above event can be invoked by a http request as http://[host]:[port]/run-cron?event=my-event