Cron already covers all my job scheduling needs, yes. You can do all the "recover thing" in the scripts called by cron, without the need of complicating 99% of

Cron already covers all my job scheduling needs, yes. You can do all the "recover thing" in the scripts called by cron, without the need of complicating 99% of cases that don't need such complication. "Keep it simple, stupid" is still valid for 2015, in my opinion. About your off-topic comment: autoconf/automake adds crazy complexity. I avoid it as much as possible, using just Make (it allows you context detection and lots of conditional handling, without complicating things).