Re:We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)
by parliament32 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:40PM
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Exactly, they solved a bunch of problems that weren't really related to cron and overall, IMO, made the situation worse.
High resource usage so they moved the actual jobs off-server. Not cron related. Crontab is hard to edit so we'll create an arbitrary data structure that'll be both hard to edit and non-standard. Good job. Our jobs are failing so instead of better error handling we'll just run them again manually. Great. And apparently they've never heard of cron logging to syslog.
High resource usage so they moved the actual jobs off-server. Not cron related. Crontab is hard to edit so we'll create an arbitrary data structure that'll be both hard to edit and non-standard. Good job. Our jobs are failing so instead of better error handling we'll just run them again manually. Great. And apparently they've never heard of cron logging to syslog.