merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 month agoWorks if manually restarted by an intern from time to timeimagemessage-square58linkfedilinkarrow-up1653arrow-down15
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minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoAt 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…
minus-squaredondelelcaro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoThat’s why there’s a crontab rule to load the crontab from a file. Cronception if you will.
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoMake the rule start a secondary cron system. Otherwise it won’t run after you erase the crontab.
minus-squaredondelelcaro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoHere you go: with-lock-ex -q /path/to/lockfile sh -c ' while true; do crontab cronfile; sleep 60; done;'
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoAt 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).
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoCrontab is a really badly designed program that we just can’t fix because everybody depends on its WFTs for something.
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…That’s why there’s a crontab rule to load the crontab from a file. Cronception if you will.
Make the rule start a secondary cron system. Otherwise it won’t run after you erase the crontab.
Here you go:
with-lock-ex -q /path/to/lockfile sh -c ' while true; do crontab cronfile; sleep 60; done;'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 (-evs-r).Crontab is a really badly designed program that we just can’t fix because everybody depends on its WFTs for something.