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Ask HN: What's in your crontab?

• roscas 1y ago
  Crontab only has scripts for programs that do not have log rotation capability.
• stop50 1y ago
  Not a real crontab. Only systemd timers. One for updating the AUR repos i use. One for updating my most used container base images. And lastly one for downloading my os and flatpak package updates, so that i can run `pacman -Su` and `flatpak update --no-pull` without waiting for slow downloads.
• Bender 1y ago
  - 3 gratuitous arps every minute - 'chronyc makestep' - Overwrite the console with ASCII art. - Refresh DNS A/NS cache for a few hundred domains in Unbound DNS. - fstrim once a week. - Custom log rotate and truncate. - RSnapshot - Gateway check, arp deletions if gateway fail-over occurs. Some of that on workstations, some on servers, some on both.
• roosgit 1y ago
  # Runs the DB backup script on Thu at 22:00 -- I download the database backup for a few websites that get new data every week. I do this in case my host bans my account. # Runs the IP change check on Mon - Sun at 09:00, 10:30, 12:00, 20:00 -- If the power goes out or the router reboots I get a new IP. On the server I use fail2ban and if I log into the admin panel I might get banned for making too many requests. So my IP needs to be "blessed". # Runs Letsencrypt certificate expiry check on Sundays at 11:00 and 18:00 -- I still have a server where I update the certificates by hand. # Runs the "daily" backup -- Just rsync # Download Godaddy auction data every day at 19:00 -- I don't actively do this anymore but I used to check, based on certain criteria, for domains that were about to expire. # Download the sellers.json on the 1st of every month at 19:00 -- I use this to collect data on websites that appear and disappear from the Mediavine and Adthrive sellers.json
• deleted 1y ago
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