RPM is not the only one

> What should really happen is to develop a cron-like system with equivalent capabilities but a sane syntax, the ability to control things like "what happens when a jobbed is skipped" or "what if the previous invocation is still running", etc. etc. etc. Instead of reading crontabs, write a converter . It can fail on the corner cases so long as it tells you it's done so.

Is that called systemd?

(lighting blue touch paper and retiring at full speed to a safe distance ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol