healthcli 2.2.1

Simple local dead man's switch for cron jobs and scheduled tasks

health-cli

Run some checks periodically locally on your machine. Provide an interface for the status of these checks. The status inteface checks timestamps and is moderately robust (tries not to hide errors)

This is AI-generated and unreviewed code... for now. Also very young so liable to change but nothing like this existed.

Motivation

Why is there nothing that does this already? I don't want to use docker or some onine services

Alternatives and prior work

There are tools like monit and sentry. cron sends emails when things fail.

Installation

``pipx install healthcli```

Usage

Set up a check: hccli add --every 1m curl website and then in a cron job or systemd timer run hccli run periodcally

To check status of all checks run: hccli. I have this run in a plasma-applet-commandoutput KDE widget which I set up with my tool kde-panel.

If you have a systemd timer you can use hccli add --every 25h --sdtimer backup-home to ensure that the timer runs every 25h.

Debugging

If hccli is not running as expected you can run hccli log to see the logs of past hccli runs.