# Installer jobber avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de jobber pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:jobber
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install jobber
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#jobber
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/jo/jobber/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:jobber
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jobber>
- **Version:** 1.4.4
- **Résumé source:** Alternative to cron, with better status-reporting and error-handling
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://dshearer.github.io/jobber/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/dshearer/jobber>
- **Docs amont:** <https://dshearer.github.io/jobber/>
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/dshearer/jobber/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.4.tar.gz>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## exécutables

- jobber (cli)
- jobber (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- go

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Service: declared
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-04
- version du gestionnaire: 1.4.4
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/dshearer/jobber
- dernière version détectée: v1.4.4 (à jour)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Historique du projet et usages

Jobber is a Go-based Unix job scheduler positioned as a better-behaved alternative to cron. Its project site emphasizes scheduled command execution plus job execution history, error handling, retry/backoff behavior, and failure reporting.

### Historique du projet

The GitHub repository was created in September 2014, and the release sequence shows a beta in January 2015 followed by v1.0.0 in January 2016. The project then moved through 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 lines, with v1.4.4 published in June 2020.

Jobber's documentation settled around a per-user jobfile model: each user defines jobs in ~/.jobber, while jobbermaster and jobberrunner coordinate execution. The README later notes that the project is stable but not actively maintained due to lack of maintainer time.

### Historique d'adoption

Jobber reached package-manager users through Homebrew and Nix, but its adoption stayed narrower than cron itself because it asks users to install a daemonized scheduler rather than rely on the base system. Its strongest niche is where operators want cron-like scheduling plus visible run history and more explicit failure behavior.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users define YAML jobs with commands, schedules, onError behavior, result sinks, and optional run logs. The command-line interface supports loading jobs, listing jobs and recent runs, testing a job, pausing and resuming jobs, and printing a job command.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Jobber is interesting as a packaged cron alternative that tried to make failure semantics part of the job definition. For package maintainers and ops-minded users, it shows the tradeoff between richer scheduler behavior and the extra service-management surface of replacing a ubiquitous system tool.

### Chronologie

- 2014: GitHub repository created.
- 2015: v0.1.0 beta release published.
- 2016: v1.0.0 and early 1.x releases published.
- 2018: v1.3.x releases published.
- 2019: v1.4.0 release published.
- 2020: v1.4.4 release published.

### Related projects

- cron is the direct point of comparison and replacement target.
- systemd timers, anacron, and language-level job schedulers occupy adjacent scheduling territory, but Jobber's own documentation frames cron as the main comparison.

### Sources

- The GitHub release API supplies the release timeline.
- The project site and README supply the cron-alternative positioning, project status, and feature set.
- The v1.4 documentation supplies the jobfile, daemon, CLI, error-handling, and run-log behavior.


## Notes de sécurité

formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.jobber
## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** jobber
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - jobber: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/jo/jobber/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Liens liés

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- [Language runtime packages](https://pkg.so/fr/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata.
- [go](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/jobber.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/jobber.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph