the.com/cronjob
a robot that does the same boring task forever so you never have to remember to.
means a scheduled task on unix systems that runs automatically at set times or intervals.
from named after cron, from the greek chronos meaning time, a daemon written for unix in 1975 by brian kernighan's colleagues at bell labs.
syntax crypticfive asterisks control minute hour day month weekday
crontab filestores your jobs, edited with crontab -e
midnight bugsmany outages traced to jobs colliding at 00:00
still everywherepowers backups, cleanups, and email reminders since forever