Questions tagged [scheduled-tasks]
A Scheduled Task is a task that is scheduled to execute at a certain time (as the name is self-explanatory).
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Schedule class (exercise for test driven development)
Schedule is a simple class that could be used in program to manage when a task should be repeated (a todo list, for example). Its constructor requires a start date ...
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Execute every Monday that is not the Monday following last Saturday in month
I think the following is good but wondering if it can be simplified or improved.
My condition for code execution is the following:
It is a Monday
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It is not the Monday following the last Saturday ...
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Generic Java task-scheduler
I wrote this generic task scheduler for executing tasks in fixed-delay intervals. Can you find anything wrong with it, or issues that may arise from using it for sending something like queued mails in ...
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Streaming scheduled TV shows according to a CSV playlist
I'm very new to Python, and I've made a small program/script that will allow me to stream specific files at a given time.
My idea is that I have a .csv file for each day, with one row for each movie/...
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Multithreaded task-scheduler
This is (supposedly) a multi-threaded scheduler for one-time and/or repeating tasks. The tasks are simple std::function<void()> objects. I built it to be a ...
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Simple Job Scheduler Class
I've created a simple daily task scheduler but I'd like to change this to a general task scheduler accepting more advanced schedules.
I'd like to have some critiques from other sets of eyes on my ...
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C++14 Async Task Scheduler
I'm not sure if this site has the right audience for anyone to be able to respond to this, but I wrote a header only scheduler which schedules a task to be run in the future on another thread:
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Displaying a scheduled job under a scheduled time
I use at to schedule jobs and atq to display the scheduled jobs. But it mildly irritates me in that I have to look up each job ...
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Task Reminder - Repeatedly notify every 6 hours
So I'm very much a beginner to Java and Android programming. I've worked a lot more with Python so I might have some quirks from there bleeding into my code here. I'd like a particular focus on ...
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ObservingCache - scheduled task executor that returns a result
I wrote a utility class called ObservingCache, which receives a task in the form of Supplier<T> and an interval, computes the task every [interval] millis and ...
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General Batched Job Runner
This question is inspired by:
Generic Task Scheduler
where the problem is to run tasks on a scheduled basis, in parallel, and have individual timeouts for each job.
For example, consider this use-...
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Task scheduler coding exercise
In an interview about multithreading I was asked to write code to satisfy the requirements below:
In the exercise you need to provide implementation of single-threaded TaskScheduler class with the ...
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Scheduling using System.IObservable 2.0
As a follow up to this first attempt to create and use my own IObservable<T> implementation, this is version 2.0. The goal has been to correct the code where ...
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Scheduled file sorting with Ruby
I have a script running as an hourly cron job. It finds all screenshots on the Desktop and moves them to directories sorted by year/month/day.
On MacOS, screenshots are automatically saved to the ...
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Python library for calculating next and previous time of the cron-like scheduled task
I needed a task system that would let me define a cron-like rule in the database, and be able to find the next and the previous time when the task was and is supposed to happen.
I am running a web ...
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Querying list of servers with PS to report on Scheduled Tasks
I work in a Windows environment where Scheduled Tasks have never been documented or kept up with, leaving us with about 150 servers that have a random smattering of tasks. I am attempting to construct ...
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Scheduler built with observables v2 (follow-up)
It would probably be too easy if the old Scheduler worked as intended being that simple. But an eye-openig review showed that from time to time it'll miss one ...
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Performing actions based on command line arguments
I'm currently reviewing a bit of an older console application which performs certain tasks depending on the command line argument that is given. These tasks are called through Windows Task Scheduler.
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Flow Task Scheduler
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I wanted a task scheduler/doer that enables my application to schedule some tasks to be executed in a specified time but in the same order they were scheduled in or depending on their ...
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Process monitoring script
I wrote a script which logs memory usage of a process (pid in file), and reacts in case a limit is reached. I run the script nightly. In my case, the process concerned propably has a memory leak and ...
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Scheduler built with observables
I sometimes have to schedule some tasks and wanted to have my own reusable scheduler. Since I like the Rx, I build it on top of it.
Follow-up
There is a newer version of the ...
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Auto backup Chrome bookmarks
This script, once added to the Windows Scheduler, automatically creates a backup of your Google Chrome bookmarks.
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Sleep until specified time
It's sometimes useful to pause until a specified time (but inconvenient to use at or the like), so I wrote a tiny script to wait until a user-specified time point ...
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Yum Notification Script
This is a Bash script I wrote to email me when updates are available for my server. I'm new to bash programming, so I don't know if I've done this well.
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Task Scheduler for small interval and one number of start
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I want a task scheduler that enables my application to schedule some tasks in small time interval. I want to use it in my socket server application. For example, when the user connects to ...
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Task scheduler API
I'm spec'ing out a API for a task scheduler and I would be thankful for your thoughts. This is what I've got so far:
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Asynchronous task runner
This is my personal project. This class is responsible for running jobs asynchronously that are registered using dependency injection.
All improvement suggestions are welcome. It can be as small as ...
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Periodically synching data from an API to database is extremely slow
I have a scheduled task where I synch all the data from one table (via an API) to another. There are about 10,000 rows that are being updated and the new ones get created. This is what I came up with ...
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Dynamic operators within DAGs (Airflow)
I would like to know if what I did to achieve to goal of dynamic operators within an Airflow DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) is a good or a bad practice.
The goal I had to achieve was:
Create a 'x' ...
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Scheduling using System.IObservable
With great inspiration from t3chb0ts ongoing work about scheduling, cron jobs etc. (last post here), I decided to make my own version of the Scheduler - using the observer pattern - as a learning ...
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Parallel Task Queue that runs in sequence
I'm in need of a solution that runs constantly incoming requests in a per-resource sequence, but parallel in general.
The use-case:
Many clients connect to a server and start issuing work. The work ...
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Custom Task Scheduler
I want a task scheduler with some specific capabilities for my application. I've searched for a good library that provides me with the following, but found nothing.
Queuing awaitable tasks.
Ability ...
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Kill dead instances of Excel on a server
We have several legacy programs (VB6) generating Excel report. They are scheduled tasks running on a server. Yes, violate this.
As a result, we've got lots of "dead" instances of Excel on the server. ...
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Function to call a list of callables with retry
This script is designed to be run via windows task scheduler once per day.
All callables passed to this function should only return a bool. The callables are called until either the maximum number of ...
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Task scheduler with dependencies
I have need for a task scheduler determined by a directed graph. The tasks are held in a std::vector<task_type>, while the dependency graph is held in a ...
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Simple python scheduled tasks script that runs once daily
I want to execute a python script daily and thereby want to schedules task as follows.
The idea is that the script will run once daily, and the script will then decide what tasks to be done today.
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Python 3 PriorityDeque with absolute priorities
Python 3 has queue.PriorityQueue, but that wasn't good enough (lacking methods, not double-ended, etc) for me and my purposes. Therefore, I have made a new one ...
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Ported C# scheduling to Scala
I'm taking a design workshop and we've received a short task:
To parse an input file of processor jobs.
To simulate scheduling of those jobs on a parallel computer (each job needs X processors)
The ...
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Parallel scheduler for running actions at designated times
I've been trying to learn Haskell on and off for a couple years. I had a project for building a parallel web scraper, and I figured I'd try to use Haskell for it. Here's the part used to schedule ...
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Scheduler built with observables v3 (follow-up) - now testable
This is a 2nd follow-up to my previous one about a Scheduler built with observables.
Although the last one was working correctly, it was only possible to see this ...
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A task scheduler with persistence
I wrote a task scheduler package with data persistence in Go.
However, the logic seems super messy... even it seems passed all tests.
Is there any better way to structure the code and finish few ...
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Task scheduler for a particular application
This isn't meant as a scheduler for just any job. The job that I need to schedule here is very specific for an application I'm writing for one of my clients.
The scheduler will run as a console ...
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Periodically sending data from database to an API
I'm trying to make a timed background service in .NET Core (I found this approach in Microsoft Docs), that every 15 seconds it gets data from the database (1000 rows max, if something exists) then ...
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Bash on Synology - Delete recycle bin entries over X days old
Synology NASs have a Task Scheduler that allows you to schedule deletion of files over X days old from recycle bins. This feature isn't working for me–running the task results in no files being ...
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Crontab datetime field pattern parser in Rust
@angus on Unix.SE implemented a tool in C to list upcoming cron jobs in response to a question. I've re-implemented the basic functionality (showing only the next cron job) in Rust, using ...
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Easy used head-only timer in C++11
This timer can add tasks running for one-shot, several times, or loop every time and delete task by marking its id. It's simply implemented by a priority queue.
My purpose is easy to use and ...
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Program to email you exchange rates that you are tracking and stats on them
This is a program I made as I am currently living in Japan with a British bank account, so exchange rates matter to me.
On the first time run, you run the script with two arguments (two currencies) ...
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Scheduling real world events for Arduino project
I am working on a project that involves scheduling real world events for a pool. Example: turn a pump on at 8AM, turn heater on at 9 AM, set heating temperature to 80 degrees, turn the pump off at 10 ...
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Remembering what chores to do each day with LED patterns [closed]
I am using a Raspberry Pi 3 model b to control LEDs connected on a breadboard. I want the lights to tell me what chore I have to do today: when to take out the trash, recyclables, vacuum, and clean ...
