Fcron's approach is to provide a shell where you can examine, run, renice, and kill cron jobs: http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrondyn.1.html http://fcron.free.fr/

Fcron's approach is to provide a shell where you can examine, run, renice, and kill cron jobs: http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrondyn.1.html http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrondyn.1.html. (You can run a job either independently or instead of the next scheduled run.) I think this is competitive with what systemd provides by separating the service from the timer. (Edit: I mean in this area. As a sibling comment points out, the separation also enables parametrization.) An advantage that systemd has is that you can refer to a service by a meaningful name instead of a numeric job identifier. What I would like to have in fcron is the ability to direct the job's output to the console when running a job immediately.