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minus-squareKess8a@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·23 hours agoGonna try me best, anyone who know what it’s trying to say can correct me Sooo… A Cronjob for “git prune” to Honour Holy Barbs on December 4th? Cronjob? Cronsob? Crondom? Tbh i dont know what it means even if spelled correctly…
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-222 hours agoa cronjob (from chronos meaning time) is an automated task that occurs when the system clock hits a date and time they are kept in a crontab (cron table) and are written with a number representing minute-hour-monthday-month-weekday-command e.g. 45 23 * * 6 echo hello world would run at the 45th minute of the 23rd hour of the 6th weekday (11:45pm on a Saturday) and print “hello world” to the console it was invented in 1970 for Unix systems (like Jurassic Parks hacking scene), and is still in use today in most servers* *don’t come after me with specifics, trying to ELI5 here.
minus-squarecomputergeek125@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoConsidering the cron time format is accepted in more than just runners like cron/anacron, I’d say your answer is reasonable (plus this is comics). No pitchforks here :)
Gonna try me best, anyone who know what it’s trying to say can correct me
Cronjob? Cronsob? Crondom? Tbh i dont know what it means even if spelled correctly…
a cronjob (from chronos meaning time) is an automated task that occurs when the system clock hits a date and time
they are kept in a crontab (cron table) and are written with a number representing minute-hour-monthday-month-weekday-command
e.g.
would run at the 45th minute of the 23rd hour of the 6th weekday (11:45pm on a Saturday) and print “hello world” to the console
it was invented in 1970 for Unix systems (like Jurassic Parks hacking scene), and is still in use today in most servers*
*don’t come after me with specifics, trying to ELI5 here.
Considering the cron time format is accepted in more than just runners like cron/anacron, I’d say your answer is reasonable (plus this is comics). No pitchforks here :)