merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 10 months agoWorks if manually restarted by an intern from time to timelemmy.worldimagemessage-square58linkfedilinkarrow-up1656arrow-down15
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minus-squaredondelelcaro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoThat’s why there’s a crontab rule to load the crontab from a file. Cronception if you will.
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoMake the rule start a secondary cron system. Otherwise it won’t run after you erase the crontab.
minus-squaredondelelcaro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoHere you go: with-lock-ex -q /path/to/lockfile sh -c ' while true; do crontab cronfile; sleep 60; done;'
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;'