I just learned, via a mutual, that cron, the job-scheduling command-line utility, is celebrating 50 years this month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron (In case anyone cares for this sort of thing on here.) #cron #anniversary - ThreadSky

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stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy • 24 days ago

I just learned, via a mutual, that cron, the job-scheduling command-line utility, is celebrating 50 years this month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

(In case anyone cares for this sort of thing on here.)

#cron #anniversary

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botwiki.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

@stefan Indispensable tool for creative botmakers!

#CreativeBots #botmakers

aslak.raanes.name•24 days ago

@stefan Vixie Cron is still maintained https://github.com/vixie/cron

aslak.raanes.name•24 days ago

@stefan The POSIX crontab https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/ is a bit simpler than most implementations.

aslak.raanes.name•24 days ago

@stefan Just after posting this, I had to change a scheduled job in Atlassian Confluence. The syntax for those are crontab

ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

@stefan /etc/cron.d/50yearly

angel.triptico.com.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

I care!

meercat0.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

@stefan happy birthday cron🎂

bazbt3.appdot.net.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@stefan "(In case anyone cares for this sort of thing on here.)" :)

I couldn't think of a better way to automate running my Python script to toot links to my blog posts and Reddit posts & saves without cron.

Most people will find better uses for it. :)

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