Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor

Re:Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor by cripblip on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:21PM (#21152887)

Define a unit and run it individually to troubleshoot vs modifying the crontab for 1 min ahead Logging in journalctl Built in jitter options to spread tasks across a window in a large fleet Ability to use the unit as a dep for other things Instrumented in systemctl list-timers Store config in user home dir (I think ) for tasks owned by a user

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Re:Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor by gorgoiler on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:05PM (#21153930)

These aren’t really better, they are just different ways of doing things the old fashioned way.

(e.g. put all your logic in one script, test it with “env -“, lock exclusively with flock if you need it, or whatever else you have to hand in your language of choice.)

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Re:Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor by cripblip on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:23PM (#21154012)

:shrug:, yeah the old fashioned way is possible too (I have to support both), systemd just gives a consistent pattern to make common tasks easy.

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Re:Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor by simcop2387 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:44PM (#21153045)

Also the ability to easily keep the task from running multiple copies at once.

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