If you do not have a cron tab, you are a cuck

>>58647135
Gentoo install guide talked me into installing cronie but I don't really know what it does...

>>58647149
it's like Task Scheduler™ in Winblows but 1000x better because you can program it

>>58647135
What am I doing to schedule, anon?

>>58647156
To be fair, I never heard of Task Scheduler in Windows either.

I never did any administrative task other than the very basic; so long as my system doesn't break I think I'm doing a good job. Is it really a time waste or is there any legit reason to "have a cron tab"?

>>58647164
daily reminder to not commit sudoku

>>58647200
>daily
>not hourly

>>58647135
systemd timers :^)

What do you guys put in your crontab? Backups, updates?

All I have is a little script to log the battery level and CPU temperature to a file every few minutes.

>>58647198
>To be fair, I never heard of Task Scheduler in Windows either.
u wot

you are missing 80% of the point of having an OS. you may as well be doing everything else by hand too. an os automates your life

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>>58647135
Don't joke about magpies

>>58647219
>update av database
>update rust source and compiler
>download latest animu from website

>>58647219
- backups
- bunch of scripts for my public server for different services
- also scripts that index/cache some things for searching on the server
- a script that checks the status of a certain slow general thread and sends a notification if its close to being pruned

>>58647135
I use systemd timers, BTFO

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>>58647135
Australia, where even the birds try to kill you.

>>58647221
Different anon here, I've never even looked into what it is

>>58647149

You write scripts and then set them up in there. It executes the scripts when you want as often as you want. Like backing shit up or moving copies elsewhere whatever. Crontab is where the stuff is scheduled and the things you schedule are called cron jobs.

>bloating your system with cron when you can just run a script at startup and use sleep to control how often it runs

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>>58647135
I am not a cuck

>>58647198
Best feature in old Windows versions was:
The "at" command-scheduling command ran at system level. If you scheduled the "cmd" command to be run in a minute, killed explorer.exe and restarted explorer.exe from the cmd that pops up after a minute, you became the system user.