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Works if manually restarted by an intern from time to time (lemmy.world)
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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

At first I thought you missed the -r. Then I checked. Defaulting to STDIN here is very, very dumb, IMHO. Almost as bad as putting the “edit” flag right next to the “delete everything without confirmation” flag on a Western keyboard (-e vs -r).

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Crontab is a really badly designed program that we just can't fix because everybody depends on its WFTs for something.