Hello,
for those who do not follow forum.meego.com: zeamoceq compiled a cron package for Harmattan. You can download the deb from here https://gitorious.org/cron-for-harma..._0_1_armel.deb

Note that it only works for root, for the thread discussion see http://forum.meego.com/showthread.ph...highlight=cron

There are many, many case examples one can think of: Automatic switching between profiles, displaying battery status, news, quotes etc on low power lockscreen etc etc

See for instance http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...13#post1150013 for a first example.

just out of curiousity...
how is this different to cron?

It's actually pretty different. The QTimer and Heartbeat APIs need your application to be in background all the time and wait for the timers, thus consuming memory and (in bad circumstances) CPU resources. With cron, you can start your application at defined schedules and it can terminate after doing its job until it gets scheduled the next time.

The version of cron hosted on repo.pub.meego.com unfortunately doesn't have the proper startup files, etc. But IIRC, it also doesn't have the seteuid bug. I'm pretty sure I was able to call crontab -e as user, after adding user to cron.allow and running develsh as user (still logged in as user, though). Perhaps the two could be combined...?

How do you overcome the permission issues with cron. I am trying to schedule a script execution and I keep on getting permission issues. I tried running the script as developer, root, or user with no luck. Any idea how can I overcome this please ?

Which version of cron you install nowadays?
What would be the requirements (openmode)?
Does somebody has the old files and could provide them please?

@Halftux, the version is the same – 0.0.1 (if there is a newer version, I know nothing about it). You can download it here.
I also do not know if the openmode is required; I have always installed it to the 'openmoded' devices, but you can give it a try.