Use /etc/cron.d Over Crontab.
5 min readApr 6, 2022
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Not all background jobs have to be in the main crontab (the one you see at EDITOR=vi crontab -e
). That crontab was all I ever knew, so the revelation of the /etc/cron.d directory was helpful, to say the least. Some benefits include:
- Can separate different systems into different files
(can’t edit/etc/cron.d/database_maintenance
and accidentally screw up your stock algorithm, because that’s in…