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[โ€“] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 18 points 23 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.

[โ€“] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 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.