yoYo2R

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   by yoYo2R 4mo ago

   > My point was purpose built doesn't mean its the best tool for the job. But you are agree cron is pretty good so it seems analogy with flying brick does not work here. > Your argument boils down to: everyone should be stuck with
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   by yoYo2R 4mo ago

   Crontab could be confusing at first glance but 100 lines (literally) of man page have everything including examples. In my exerience they covers 99% of use cases unless you need something REALLY fancy. And you have cron on every system incl
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   by yoYo2R 4mo ago

   Cron. Initial release May 1975; 51 years ago It is succesfully flying 51 year. And will work next 50 years. Systemd probably will changes syntax in next 2 years. Modern development mindset: if tool is not rewritten last month - it is outdat
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   by yoYo2R 4mo ago

   > What are people on non-systemd distros like Guix System, Void, PCLinuxOS, and so on using for this? Is there still something better to use than cron? Instead of `sleep` you can use `at`. But for scheduling `cron` is still the best. Pac