cron-forge

PyQt6 crontab manager — part of the Forge Suite by dev-boffin-io.

Features

• My Crontab tab — visual table of all cron jobs
  • Schedule / Human explanation / Command / Enabled / Next Run columns
  • Double-click to edit, delete button
  • Raw crontab editor with syntax highlighting (comments, schedule fields, commands)
  • Apply raw → table and vice versa
• Add/Edit Job dialog
  • Preset picker: @reboot, @daily, every 5 min, every weekday, etc.
  • Field-by-field builder: minute / hour / dom / month / dow
  • Direct expression input
  • Human-readable explanation in real-time
  • Next 3 run times preview (requires croniter)
  • Log file, stderr redirect, MAILTO, working directory options
  • Enable/disable toggle (comments out the line)
• System Crons tab — browse /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.d/, cron.daily/weekly/monthly
• Reference tab — cron syntax quick reference with examples
• Load crontab for other users (requires sudo)
• Save crontab directly via crontab -

Install

pip install PyQt6
pip install croniter   # optional, for next-run times

Run

python app.py

Platform

Linux · macOS