This is not an argument against cron. It is a demonstration of people not abstracting code. One of the thousands i've come across. Take all of the features he

This is not an argument against cron. It is a demonstration of people not abstracting code. One of the thousands i've come across. Take all of the features he mentions, and abstract the to a launch_from_cron.sh file. Make that file accept a script path as an argument and viola! All of the safety added to cron without the need for code duplication or these massive overhead solutions listed in these comments.