in reply to crontab alternatives

You always got "at(d)" as an alternative. Also, you got anacron
Update: maybe look into these perl modules Schedule-Cron and Schedule-At

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Cron and At
by gryng (Hermit) on Sep 19, 2000 at 21:23 UTC
    On many systems at is implemented using cron.

    Gryn

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