Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"?
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Cron jobs: the tiny line that runs half your backend
Every backend has a few jobs nobody looks at. The nightly backup. The 9 AM report. The script that deletes old files. Each one is a single line of cron. They work fine for months.
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- Cron job syntax includes minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, and command.
- Misunderstanding cron's range and interval syntax can lead to incorrect scheduling.
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