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A comment on We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016). Parent comment

Re:We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016) by yuliyp on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:09PM (#17806272)
What does that have to do with the problems that they dealt with? (randomly failing jobs, resource management, monitoring, etc)
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Re:We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016) by dfc on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:43PM (#17806457)
I think the comment is in reference to the second problem listed, "editing the plaintext file is difficult."
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Re:We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016) by _kevinspencer on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:33AM (#17807007)
Well, to be fair none of those things you list are due to a failure of cron itself either.
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