FLoM is a toolforsynchronizingshell commandsand avoidingcomplexworkarounds. Itmanages processserializationnot unlike"nice"handles theirprioritization.It allows shellcommands to beserialized andsynchronizedwithin a singlesystem or anetwork. Itrequires littleconfigurationto easilyhandle commonsettings.
fcron is aperiodicalcommandscheduler whichaims atreplacing VixieCron, so itimplements mostof itsfunctionalities. But fcronmakes noassumptions onwhether yoursystem isrunning all thetime orregularly : youcan, forinstance, tellfcron toexecute tasksevery x hours yminutes ofsystem up timeor to do a jobonly once in aspecifiedinterval oftime. Fcronhas also muchmorefunctionalities: you can alsoset a nicevalue to a job,run itdepending onthe system loadaverage and m