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easysched 1.2.9
Lightweight framework to easily schedule multiple tasks.

#  easysched

easysched is lightweight framework to easily schedule multiple tasks designed to be easily configurable by just a 
configuration file using default python tools.

With this framework you can call every type of executable, independent of the programming language, for instance 
bash/perl scripts, C/C++ programs, Java... or any other executable. Additionally, you can define the priority of a Task, 
which user should be the callee and if the Task should be run once or cyclic by defining the Task execution interval and 
if the output of a process should be logged into a file.

All of this is easily configurable with only one configuration file. The parse process is based on the configparser class 
of python3.X with the extended interpolation feature and enriched with additional functionality to call tasks.

## Installation

You can find the latest version on [PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/easysched/). So simply use `pip` with

    pip install easysched

After installing `easysched` there is a file `easysched.service` in the `<venv>/share/` directory in order to set up 
`easysched` as a user service. Just replace the sample configuration file with the one on your system and then run 

    sudo systemctrl enable <venv>/share/easysched


## Usage
A sample simple configuration file  `example.cfg` can be found next to the service file with the following content:

    [easysched]
    Task-tag=Task:
    tmp-dir=/tmp/
    log-dir=${tmp-dir}

    [Task:PrintDateEverySecond]
    command=/bin/echo
    parameters=$$(date +"%Y%m%d %H%M%S")
    interval=1

    [Task:PrintEveryFiveSeconds]
    command=/bin/echo
    parameters=$$(date +"%Y%m%d %H%M%S")
    interval=5

The section for general information is named easysched so that you can use this configuration 
file for other scripts, too. You can define where to save log files with the `log-dir` and temporary file
with the `tmp-dir` attribute.

The `Task-tag` option in the easysched section is optional - by default the tag `Task:` is assumed 
to be the section tag for defining tasks. Feel free to change this to your needs.

For attributes defined in the config files ending with `-dir`, the directories will be created by easysched. You don't
have to create them manually. 

### Start easysched
In order to run the easysched deamon with the example configuration given above, simply run 

    esdd --config=venv/share/example.cfg


### Control easysched tasks
Now that easysched is running it waits for commands to start, pause, stop or terminate a `Task`. In order to send 
easysched such commands, use the easysched control tool `esdctrl`.

For instance, to start the task `PrintEveryFiveSeconds` in the example configuration, run the following command:

    esdctrl task PrintEveryFiveSeconds start