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[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 30 points 19 hours ago (15 children)

My current project has a crontab with 216 entries.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 33 points 18 hours ago (7 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 17 points 18 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 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 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.

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