sigino / hat

HAT(Hyper-AT) : An all-in-one and enhanced replacement for at, batch and relevant one-time schedulers, for GNU/Linux.

HAT (Hyper-AT) is an one time run job scheduler for GNU/Linux, with an emphasis on usability. It is designed to be a direct replacement of at (atq, atrm), batch, and other such one time run task scheduling engines/toolsets.

Benefits of hat:

• Seconds resolution i.e. you can run job at the mentioned second
• Use your shell of choice; you're not bound to /bin/sh
• Job modification is supported; you can easily modify command, time of an enqueued job
• Flexible datetime specifications, see https://github.com/heemayl/humantime-epoch-converter
• Will run a scheduled job later when the computer was off at that time, so no job will be missed
• Option for running a job at the specified time only e.g. if the computer was off at that time, job will not be run
• User specific jobs, secured approach
• User based logging, all logs from jobs of a user go in ~/.hatd/logs/
• Parsing logs is easier than ever through the hat-parser executable
• All-in-one i.e. no separate tool based on job or pattern
• Easy to use

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Installation:

1. Clone or download the repository

2. Run the install.sh script as superuser

3. Check man hatc

N.B The userspace command is hatc -- the only thing you should need.

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Example workflow:

# Job listing: --list/-l
% hatc -l
Job queue is empty

# `hatc --list` is the default
% hatc
Job queue is empty

# Job count: --count/-c
% hatc -c
0

# Job addition/scheduling: --add/-a
% hatc --add free 'now + 5 min'
{'msg': 'Done'}

% hatc -l
ID		    Time		Shell		Command
1	    2018-02-08T16:47:29		  -		free

% hatc -c
1

% hatc -a 'echo $PATH' 'tomorrow 14:40:30' bash
{'msg': 'Done'}

% hatc -l
ID		    Time		Shell		Command
1	    2018-02-08T16:47:29		  -		free
2	    2018-02-09T14:40:30		bash		echo $PATH

% hatc -c
2

# Job removal: --remove/-r
% hatc --remove 1
{'msg': 'Queued'}

% hatc -l
ID		    Time		Shell		Command
2           2018-02-09T14:40:30		bash		echo $PATH

% hatc -c
1

% hatc --remove 2
{'msg': 'Queued'}

% hatc -l
Job queue is empty

% hatc -c
0

% hatc -a free 'now +30 mins'
{'msg': 'Done'}

% hatc -l
ID		    Time	       Shell		Command
1	    2018-02-09T03:41:57		 -		free

# Job modification: --modify/-m
% hatc --modify 1 'free -m' _
{'msg': 'Done'}

% hatc -l
ID		    Time	       Shell		Command
1	    2018-02-09T03:41:57		 -		free -m

% hatc -m 1 _ 'today 14:30:42'
{'msg': 'Done'}

% hatc -l
ID     		    Time	       Shell		Command
1 	    2018-02-09T14:30:42		 -		free -m

Now, option for running a job at only at the specified time is available. By default, a job is will be run later if e.g. the computer was off at the desired run time; -e/--exact option disables this behavior:

% hatc -l
Job queue is empty

# Adding job with `--exact`
% hatc --exact --add 'free -g' 'now+1h3m40s'
{'msg': 'Done'}

# Check out the third column
% hatc -l
ID	        Time		        Exact		Shell		Command
1	2018-02-12T03:13:44		 Yes	          -		free -g

# Let's disable exact by modifying the job without `-e`/`--exact`
% hatc -m 1 _ _
{'msg': 'Done'}

# exact is disabled
% hatc -l
ID	        Time		        Exact		Shell		Command
1	2018-02-12T03:13:44		 No	          -		free -g

# Enable exact again
% hatc -e -m 1 _ _
{'msg': 'Done'}

# Enabled again
% hatc -l
ID	        Time		        Exact		Shell		Command
1	2018-02-12T03:13:44		 Yes	          -		free -g

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Parsing logs (see hat-parser --help):

% hat-parser -f 2018-02-26T02:00:00 -t 2018-02-27T18:00:00
2018-02-26 02:05:10 : euid>1000 : id>1 : time>2018-02-26 02:05:10 : cmd>whoami : ret>0 :: out>foobar
2018-02-26 17:23:16 : euid>1000 : id>2 : time>2018-02-26 17:23:16 : cmd>true : ret>0 :: out>
2018-02-27 14:10:25 : euid>1000 : id>3 : time>2018-02-27 14:10:25 : cmd>whoami : ret>0 :: out>foobar

% hat-parser --from 2018-02-26T02:00:00 --to 2018-02-26T23:59:59
2018-02-26 02:05:10 : euid>1000 : id>1 : time>2018-02-26 02:05:10 : cmd>whoami : ret>0 :: out>foobar
2018-02-26 17:23:16 : euid>1000 : id>2 : time>2018-02-26 17:23:16 : cmd>true : ret>0 :: out>

% hat-parser -f 2018-02-26T02:00:00 -t 2018-02-26T23:59:59 --command '^who'
2018-02-26 02:05:10 : euid>1000 : id>1 : time>2018-02-26 02:05:10 : cmd>whoami : ret>0 :: out>foobar

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