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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 12:15:00 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Scumbag crontab. At least on two times I messed up https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-add-jobs-to-cron-under-linux-or-unix-oses/

   #linux #unix #macos #sysadmin #opensource

   • Tertle950 (tertle950@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 13:05:13 JST Tertle950

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     @nixCraft *irrecoverably

   • Sepi Girardi (sepi1enfwb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 13:05:49 JST Sepi Girardi

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     @nixCraft This is why I don't back up. Because variety is the spice of life.

   • TintedKiwi (tintedkiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 13:06:50 JST TintedKiwi

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     @nixCraft :hurb:

   • MoMathDoc (momathdoc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 13:49:00 JST MoMathDoc

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     @nixCraft maybe change to Dvorak?

   • Django (dj4n90@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 14:45:02 JST Django

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     @nixCraft Bad mistake - big mistake! What do I see on the bottom left of the keyboard between the 'Fn' and 'Alt' keys? Ei Ei Ei Ei Ei .... 🤨🧐

   • hansvschoot (hansvschoot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 15:00:27 JST hansvschoot

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     @nixCraft you call it a data loss, I call it spring cleaning. We are not the same.

   • Markus Peuhkuri (puhuri@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 15:14:13 JST Markus Peuhkuri

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     For important cases, my crontabs live in a file under versin control. Then I just I replace it with 'crontab crontab-for-this'.
     AFAIK the edit option existed in 4.3 BSD (first time I used cron) but for some reason I opted using file under my home directory. Could be that the default editor was vi (or ed) and using emacs was much easier.
     But yes, for odd jobs in random computers I just kick crontab -e.
     @nixCraft

   • 5qrrl (5qrrl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 17:08:28 JST 5qrrl

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     @nixCraft
     protip: look at your screen when you type :welp: