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Just curious, what kind of cron jobs are you running?

• jaakl 7y ago
  He told it: random ones.
• sparker72678 7y ago
  I just went to look at my crontab again. Some highlights (lowlights?): - Turning lights on/off around the house, because I found cron to be a more reliable scheduling agent that the one built-into my Wave software when I first set it up. - Testing network performance (ping times to various locations) - Fetching a mail account and processing the messages for an automation I have setup for some things. - Updating online weather services with data from my weather station. - Kicking off data gathering/update jobs.
  • m463 7y ago
    You know, cron is simple... but so directly useful. I moved some stuff out of cron into systemd and although it worked, it was over-complicated in an infuriating way. I realize systemd is useful, but the implementation is like trying to navigate through a teenager's bedroom trying to find something.