Suggestion – Repeat Cronjob on success

Some of my cronjobs is set to run 20 times with a short interval of time like 20 sec. The cronjob updates some parameters in the database based on user behaviour. But sometimes the cron only needs to repeat 3 or 4 times at other times maybe 18 or 20 times.

So instead of setting a very high number of times the cron needs to run (using crontab with short intervals) it could be an idea to have a repeat-section (like the Failures and retry-section).

In this repeat section you could have a text field ‘Repeat if contains’ and also a repeat-after-field where number of seconds could be set e.g. 20, 30 or 60 seconds

As long as the return-text contains the given text the cronjob will repeat itself.

In this way I only have to set the cronjob to run once and the it will repeat itself as many times as necessary witch might be 4 or 20

This will reduce load on all servers and will be more effective than just setting a high number of unnecessary repeats using crontab-settings.