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Works if manually restarted by an intern from time to time (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Any problem in server administration can be solved with an additional crontab entry. Except for the problem of too many crontab entries.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 14 hours ago

Which can be solved by an additional server.

Boom, problem solved.

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And that's why I added a crontab entry that periodically purges my cron configuration. That way, I'm forced to readd only the truly necessary cron jobs, successfully reducing the amount of crontab entries.