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> Not only does it combine cron, at, and other daemons into init itself I think I found the reason.
by jff 13y ago
> Not only does it combine cron, at, and other daemons into init itself
I think I found the reason.
- kunai 13y agoWhen is that last time you used cron to schedule jobs? Be honest.
- jff 13y agoI use it to this day to keep my dynamic DNS records up to date. I also use it daily, although not explicitly, when the various Debian cron jobs run. Logrotate, that kind of thing. It's the idea that all this shit should be rolled into init, the goddamn boot process, that revolts me.
- e1ven 13y agoEarlier this morning? It might be because I'm an ops guy, but I use Cron to schedule things on a regular basis, even in my personal work. It's pretty crazy good at what it does. Being able to say "Filter my email every 5 minutes", is awesome. */5 * * * /usr/local/bin/filter-email.sh
- jlgreco 13y agoThursday.
- runjake 13y agoOn non-OS X and non-Windows OSes? Probably daily. Heck, I even use cron (via Cygwin) on my Windows box at work.
- unethical_ban 13y agocron is used on almost every production linux/BSD box on my team, and I'm sure there are many others who are similar.