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Works if manually restarted by an intern from time to time (lemmy.world)
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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 31 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Well, here's a sentence I haven't been tempted to use before:

"I believe that may be too many crontab entries."

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Any problem in server administration can be solved with an additional crontab entry. Except for the problem of too many crontab entries.

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And that's why I added a crontab entry that periodically purges my cron configuration. That way, I'm forced to readd only the truly necessary cron jobs, successfully reducing the amount of crontab entries.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

just randomly delete 50 of them.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. The strongest crontab entries will probably restore themselves. (For anyone reading along, this is sarcasm. Don't do this.)

[–] farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

a crontab can regenerate from bisection to form two whole crontabs

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

pshaw, just drop in there and combine a few

/etc/cron.d/first25 /etc/cron.d/second25 ...

[–] j_z@feddit.nu 1 points 4 hours ago

This is the way. Exactly what we did + migrated 80% of everything to k8s cronjobs and Argo workflows