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hexmedia/crontab
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Managing crontab

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Since Feb 1Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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Crontab
=======

[](#crontab)

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Library for managing crontab on your system. Currently supports only FreeBSD and Linux devices, for other devices see section: [Other Unix Like crontab systems](#other-unix-like-crontab-systems)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Phar file

[](#phar-file)

add instruction

### Global composer

[](#global-composer)

composer.phar global require hexmedia/crontab

### For project

[](#for-project)

composer.phar require hexmedia/crontab

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Other Unix Like crontab systems

[](#other-unix-like-crontab-systems)

If your system is not identified as Linux or FreeBSD, you can easily add support for them by adding this code to your application:

```
Hexmedia\Crontab\Reader\SystemUnixReader::addSupportedOs("FreeBSD");

```

Known problems
--------------

[](#known-problems)

- Does not support special crontab values like @daily, @yearly
- Does not support correctly comments between variables

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 21% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity43

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9bdb97700cdbeedde008012eecb49fcb02601e6301b8dc66e3d2b61b93e28716?d=identicon)[kuczek](/maintainers/kuczek)

---

Top Contributors

[![kuczek](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2432505?v=4)](https://github.com/kuczek "kuczek (79 commits)")

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