On my Ubuntu-based distro (Linux Lite), how to auto delete all network connections, disable Wi-Fi and networking as part of booting process? #bash #networkmanager #cron #nmcli

https://askubuntu.com/q/1553262/612

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Backups are an easy task to put off but WOW do you feel the pain when a file is mistakenly deleted or a storage device fails!

I use a combination of ZFS tools + bash scripting + cron(8) to perform an automated daily backup of the contents of my home directory to the home server (both machines are running FreeBSD):

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/automate-zfs-backups/

The Complete Guide to Installing, Configuring and Operating Plex Media Server on Ubuntu Server (12/14)

The Scheduler can be used to automate any task. (Beginner-Friendly!)

This video shows you how to use a crontab generator to set a schedule for the task you want to execute and then copy the output and paste it into Ubuntu's cron table.
https://youtu.be/3NV--V6Fa4s

This video was helpful in getting me started on writing my own bash script to automate the process of creating ZFS snapshots and doing backups to my home server.

[Video starts at 9:45 where the scripting begins]...

https://youtu.be/_4wJMUgZloQ?si=JPy19GSgQBNBWMj4&t=585

The guy who decided AWS should have its own special cron syntax should be fired into the sun.

Laravel - Crear comando artisan para terminal y añadirlo a un cron

En esta ocasión vemos cómo crear un comando artisan de laravel (para terminal) enfocado en regenerar un caché de estadísticas que se renovarán cada 30 minutos y acelerar así la carga del sitio web reduciendo consultas.

Posteriormente lo añadimos a una tarea cron para automatizar la regeneración de estadísticas.

https://youtu.be/SPDt7zukAUg

For something so infamous, #cron / crontab syntax is too tame. Like, it's basically #CSS :nth-child with a slightly different syntax. Booooooring!

Setting up a cronjob for a web app is so satisfying because it feels like giving the app a pulse and seeing it come to life in the GUI.

How to Run CRON Jobs in Postgres Without Extra Infrastructure

https://wasp.sh/blog/2025/05/28/how-to-run-cron-jobs-in-postgress-without-extra-infrastructure

Bilan de "poc-sveltekit-custom-server" pour exécuter des tâches "cron" dans un projet Monolith en SvelteKit :

https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-05-28_1238/

Blöd gelaufen. Rolle gerade #prometheus Kram via #puppet aus und hab einen #cron übersehen, der deaktiviert war und durch Puppet wieder aktiv wurde. War ein #rsync mit —delete und nun fehlen über 400 Dateien .
Ein Mix aus „ist egal und kann neu erstellt werden“, „hmm, blöd aber ok“ und „Shit, da muss man vermutlich den Kunden um Hilfe bitte“. Na mal kucken was das Management da morgen macht.

Jetzt machen wir erstmal 2x täglich #backups

Today is cron’s 50th birthday. But it’s a common misconception that it means cron is 50 years old.

In reality, for a very short period of time, someone accidentally wrote cron’s birthday expression with a * in the first column, which resulted in a birthday per minute until they realised their mistake.

Happy 50th birthday, cron! Thanks for remembering all of our jobs for us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

I just learned, via a mutual, that cron, the job-scheduling command-line utility, is celebrating 50 years this month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

(In case anyone cares for this sort of thing on here.)

Зачем нужен ArgoCD, если можно поставить cron с git pull?

Инфраструктура как код, GitOps, автоматизация — все эти слова давно перестали быть модными терминами и стали частью повседневной жизни инженера. Но вместе с этим появляются и вопросы: а всегда ли нужно внедрять тяжелые инструменты? Например, зачем нужен ArgoCD, если можно просто настроить cron с git pull на нужный сервер? Попробуем разобраться, в чём разница между этими подходами, какие задачи они решают, где их границы применимости и, главное, в каких случаях cron — это «дешево и сердито», а когда он становится «дешево, но больно».

https://habr.com/ru/articles/912014/