Please, someone, destroy cron. Forever.
Just wanted to say: I detest “cron” more than mere words have the power to convey. I suspect there aren’t many other pieces of fundamental software implemented in so few lines of code that over so many years have caused so much harm and frustration to so many people and systems (surprisingly, cron has often been the point of error in weird failures of clusters of servers I’ve dealt with - e.g. when the backups mysteriously stop working, or an app crashes and won’t restart, etc)
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