Re: [SAGE] crontabs vs /etc/cron.[daily,hourly,*] vs. /etc/cron.d/

["Danny Howard" <dannyman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Well, to add another worm to your can . . .

I'd say, any reasonable SysAdmin should default to /etc/crontab
because every other reasonable SysAdmin already knows where it is.  If
anything is used in addition to /etc/crontab, leave a note in
/etc/crontab advising the new guy who just got paged at 3:45am where
else to look for crons.

For production systems, I strongly object to the use of per-user
crontabs.  I'm glad to hear I'm not alone.  One thing I have to do in
a new environment tends to be to write a script that will sniff out
all the cron entries.

And then there was the shop that used /etc/crontab, user crons, and
anacron to keep crons from running over each other.  This frustrated
me enough that I did a poor job of explaining that job concurrency
could easily be ensured by wrapping script through a lockfile or
flock-type program, instead of adding a new layer of system
complexity.

Sincerely,
-danny

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