# jobber を Homebrew, Nix でインストール

jobber のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

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

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install jobber
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

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

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

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:jobber
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 1.4.4
- **ソース概要:** Alternative to cron, with better status-reporting and error-handling
- **ホームページ:** <https://dshearer.github.io/jobber/>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/dshearer/jobber>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- jobber (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 1.4.4
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

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.

### プロジェクトの歴史

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.

### 採用の歴史

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.

### 使われ方

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.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

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.

### タイムライン

- 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.

### ソース

- 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.


## セキュリティノート

formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Geiger リスク:** orange / 中
- 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
## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- 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


## Combined YAML source

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


## ソース

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