[LAD] Simple Pipewire test request

Keith Edmunds kae at midnighthax.com
Fri Jul 9 11:41:19 CEST 2021


> instead of messing with cron jobs which was never intended to be used to
> implement joe user tasks

Au contraire, that is exactly what cron is for.

I would agree that the /etc/crontab file should not be used for user
tasks, nor the /etc/cron.* directories that most distros support.

However, there is also the crontab(1) command which allows per-user
crontabs to be set up. The start of the man page even says, "crontab -
maintain crontab files for individual users".

So no, don't use the system cron files under /etc, but do use the crontab
commands to manage user jobs.
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