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

submitted 1 week ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At some point it may be good to migrate to airflow or something similar.

It's not the number of entries that makes it bad. It's the fact that if you run crontab, they are gone...

[–] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's why there's a crontab rule to load the crontab from a file. Cronception if you will.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make the rule start a secondary cron system. Otherwise it won't run after you erase the crontab.

[–] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here you go:

with-lock-ex -q /path/to/lockfile sh -c '
while true; do
    crontab cronfile;
    sleep 60;
done;'

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

At first I thought you missed the -r. Then I checked. Defaulting to STDIN here is very, very dumb, IMHO. Almost as bad as putting the “edit” flag right next to the “delete everything without confirmation” flag on a Western keyboard (-e vs -r).

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Crontab is a really badly designed program that we just can't fix because everybody depends on its WFTs for something.