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submitted 4 weeks ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's why there's a crontab rule to load the crontab from a file. Cronception if you will.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Make the rule start a secondary cron system. Otherwise it won't run after you erase the crontab.

[–] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Here you go:

with-lock-ex -q /path/to/lockfile sh -c '
while true; do
    crontab cronfile;
    sleep 60;
done;'