OSALT 🧂 (Under development)

  

Table of content:

1. Todo list

2. Usage

3. Contact

OSALT: Open-source Scripting Automation Linux Toolkit is a tool that helps with scheduled scripting automation on Linux systems The code will be in bash. It is an implementation of systemd.

TODO:

Coding features

• Set up statup script
  • Add script to config.json
  • Copy script to config directory and change rights
  • Create systemd service
  • Enable service
• Set up shutdown script
  • Add script to config.json
  • Copy script to config directory and change rights
  • Create systemd service
• Set up scheduled script
  • Add script to config.json
  • Copy script to config directory and change rights
  • Create systemd service
  • Create systemd timer
• List user's scripts
• Delete scripts
  • Remove script from folder
  • Disable systemd service
  • Delete systemd service
• Disable script
• Set up triggered script

Other

• See how to set up run at start (systemctl/cron/?)
• See how to set up run at shutdown

Usage

osalt [options] [script_name]

Options:
  -s, --startup <script_name>    Add a startup script.
  -w, --shutdown <script_name>   Add a shutdown script.
  -c, --scheduled <script_name>  Add a scheduled script.
  -d, --delete <script_name>     Delete a script.
  -l, --list                     List all available scripts.
  -h, --help                     Prints this help.

Examples:
  osalt -s my_startup_script.sh
  osalt -h my_shutdown_script.sh
  osalt -c my_scheduled_script.sh
  osalt -v my_startup_script.sh
  osalt -d my_shutdown_script.sh
  osalt -l

To set up scheduled script, use systemd OnCalendar syntax:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers

Explanation	Systemd timer
Every Minute	*-*-* *:*:00
Every 2 minutes	*-*-* *:*/2:00
Every 5 minutes	*-*-* *:*/5:00
Every 15 minutes	*-*-* *:*/15:00
Every quarter hour	*-*-* *:*/15:00
Every 30 minutes	*-*-* *:*/30:00
Every half an hour	*-*-* *:*/30:00
Every 60 minutes	*-*-* */1:00:00
Every 1 hour	*-*-* *:00:00
Every 2 hours	*-*-* */2:00:00
Every 3 hours	*-*-* */3:00:00
Every other hour	*-*-* */2:00:00
Every 6 hours	*-*-* */6:00:00
Every 12 hours	*-*-* */12:00:00
Hour Range	*-*-* 9-17:00:00
Between certain hours	*-*-* 9-17:00:00
Every day	*-*-* 00:00:00
Daily	*-*-* 00:00:00
Once A day	*-*-* 00:00:00
Every Night	*-*-* 01:00:00
Every Day at 1am	*-*-* 01:00:00
Every day at 2am	*-*-* 02:00:00
Every morning	*-*-* 07:00:00
Every midnight	*-*-* 00:00:00
Every day at midnight	*-*-* 00:00:00
Every night at midnight	*-*-* 00:00:00
Every Sunday	Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
Every Friday	Fri *-*-* 01:00:00
Every Friday at midnight	Fri *-*-* 00:00:00
Every Saturday	Sat *-*-* 00:00:00
Every weekday	Mon...Fri *-*-* 00:00:00
Weekdays only	Mon...Fri *-*-* 00:00:00
Monday to Friday	Mon...Fri *-*-* 00:00:00
Every weekend	Sat,Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
Weekends only	Sat,Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
Every 7 days	* *-*-* 00:00:00
Every week	Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
Weekly	Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
Once a week	Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
Every month	* *-*-01 00:00:00
Monthly	* *-*-01 00:00:00
Once a month	* *-*-01 00:00:00
Every quarter	* *-01,04,07,10-01 00:00:00
Every 6 months	* *-01,07-01 00:00:00
Every year	* *-01-01 00:00:00

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