The Cron Commandments
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adrienne | Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: ... be good, get good or give up. |
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John | The Cron Commandments |
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June 29, 2008 |
1. Always use a script, never a bare command line. 2. Don't shout about success 3. Debug information should be an option 4. Beware overrunning jobs 5. Beware /dev/null redirects in crontabs 6. Avoid running as root |
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June 27, 2008 |
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Waylan | The Cron Commandments - part 1 |
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June 27, 2008 |
Although it's a rare Unix machine that doesn't run at least a couple of custom cronjobs it's an even more special snowflake that does them properly. Below are some of the more common problems I've seen and my thoughts on them. |
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