Agreed. I've been a sysadmin for about ten years now and absolutely loathe them. At the surface, they're simple to use, but it very, very quickly becomes a head

Agreed. I've been a sysadmin for about ten years now and absolutely loathe them. At the surface, they're simple to use, but it very, very quickly becomes a headache as the server count increases. That, and just about everyone who uses cron forgets to clean up their old messes or adds random scripts here and there, which makes a machine's crontab very, very messy. It makes finding a rogue cron job very, very difficult to find sometimes.