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Re:Fcron Is the Best Cron by Denvercoder9 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:22AM (#37880670)
> Only one job runs at a time

At least on Debian, this is not true. If your hourly cronjobs take longer than an hour, it'll happily start a second instance of them in parallel.

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Re:Fcron Is the Best Cron by ape4 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @11:45AM (#37881387)
Good point, I can see that happening. I was talking about all the, say, hourly scripts running serially.
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Re:Fcron Is the Best Cron by detistea on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:22AM (#37889156)
It's true when using systemd-cron. It has built-in locking against duplicate execution.
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