Question

I have a Python script that can run anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes.

I need a scheduler that can spawn the job, then after the job is finished, wait 15 minutes, then run the job again etc.

• No concurrency, just one instance of the job.
• After the job is finished (not started!) there must be a wait period of 15 minutes.
• Linux machine.

Answer 1

You could use a bash script to do that. Invoke the program then after it finishes sleep for 15 minutes.

while true; do
    python myprogram.py
    sleep 900
done