How to Run Scheduled Tasks on ZimaOS (Zima Cron Tutorial)

Yeah, after my last restart I had to re-add the cron job for nextcloud. It wouldn’t let me add, I had to uninstall cron and reinstall it again too. Tell me how I can get it to keep the job persistent.

We have to wait until the GitHub maintainer either merges my pull request or writes their own fix and then upload it to the zpkg repository.

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Thank you for your contribution. We expect to release a new version soon.

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For those that dont know, the repository mentioned earlier seemingly has been abandoned, and the development was moved to a new repository here: GitHub - chicohaager/cron: A modern, reliable task scheduler for ZimaOS with a completely redesigned web interface. Replaces the previous cron implementation with improved task persistence, advanced scheduling options, and comprehensive notification support. · GitHub where persistent tasks have already been implemented.

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I saw there was a release 2 days ago, and it said it is now just cron not zima_cron. I tried to install it… this is what happened

root@ZimaWTR:/DATA ➜ # zpkg install cron

starting install module…
Failed to install module: unable to locate module in module store
Please use zpkg list-remote to view all available modules
You can also use zpkg update to refresh the module list
root@ZimaWTR:/DATA ➜ # zpkg list-remote
NAME

zima_cron
undelit
zimaos_ai
zimaos_ai_intel
mobile_backup

When will we be able to install it?

It will be part of ZimaOS 1.6 upwards. If you want to install it now, you can too. All you need to do is download the cron.raw file from the github releases and use zpkg like this “zpkg install cron.raw”

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Hi @SirWill

This is how I was able to install it. (Thanks @Lintux )

I just upgraded to 1.6.0 and I cqnt find this anywhere? Not in UI and not in release files