- I don’t see the alias in your .bashrc - yeah, um, about that. I have no idea where it comes from. We can type alias and see what it is, so if it’s ever lost, we can recreate it, but I looked for 30 minutes yesterday even did a grep -R and I have NO IDEA where it comes from, or why it’s named electricboogaloo 
- OK, I got called out - Ha, loser. - *glances over at 6 bash scripts and 2 cron jobs* - Not you, you’re perfect 
 
- My current project has a crontab with 216 entries. - Well, here’s a sentence I haven’t been tempted to use before: - “I believe that may be too many crontab entries.” - Any problem in server administration can be solved with an additional crontab entry. Except for the problem of too many crontab entries. 
- pshaw, just drop in there and combine a few - /etc/cron.d/first25 /etc/cron.d/second25 … 
 
- At some point it may be good to migrate to airflow or something similar. - It’s not the number of entries that makes it bad. It’s the fact that if you run - crontab, they are gone…- That’s why there’s a crontab rule to load the crontab from a file. Cronception if you will. - Make the rule start a secondary cron system. Otherwise it won’t run after you erase the crontab. - Here you go: - with-lock-ex -q /path/to/lockfile sh -c ' while true; do crontab cronfile; sleep 60; done;'
 
 
- At first I thought you missed the - -r. Then I checked. Defaulting to STDIN here is very, very dumb, IMHO. Almost as bad as putting the “edit” flag right next to the “delete everything without confirmation” flag on a Western keyboard (- -evs- -r).- Crontab is a really badly designed program that we just can’t fix because everybody depends on its WFTs for something. 
 
 
 
- Suck my dick O’Leary 
- Nah bro, that bash alias is FULLY documented in .bashrc! Idiot. 
- A self-written shell script “daemon” that tails & greps log output for “ERR|FAIL” 
- I know there’s a meme here, but as a Canadian, I’m sorry about that traitorous asshat. 
- deleted by creator - If you try hard enough 
- Nobody write down that if you run the stuff in a different machine, you have to create the alias first. - And once you lose the machine and are trying to restore your backups, you can’t run - aliasand discover what- doThingyactually does.
- This a joke? Cause that won’t show up on another machine. Of course it’s undocumented. 
 
- I’ll hear NO aspersions against my precious Cron! - Cron is magic. Cron is civilization! - Naw, mate, that’s Crom. 
- This might come in handy. 
 
- Oh man, you guys should see what I was cooking up at my old place. - Head office too shitty to give us an actual asset management solution, but we did have full access to the Microsoft suite, so i used a SharePoint lists as databases, powerapps apps running on iPads for all the data entry ux and then like two dozen hacked together power automate flows linking them all together as well as taking any Info out of the actual IT systems head office used and since we didn’t have API access to those system any data feeding back in to them would be in the form of automated emails that the poor 1st line techs in head office would have to sort through and process manually. 
- Since I’m somewhat of a simpleton… isn’t that how pipelines actually work? The only difference being, they’re all (scripts) available from a centralized system and triggered i.e. with webhooks? - Instead of a local script on a server, the system opens i.e. a ssh session and runs the script step by step remotely? - So is that the joke or am I missing something? 
- I feel attacked 
- Yes 
- This used to be my remote work wardrobe. But now I dress more casually. - As much as I love the magic of working and attending meetings in your undies, I’ve found I’m a far better professional if I’m actually fully dressed while I work. And when I go into the office I always wear something with a collar even at workplaces where that’s overdressed. It just puts me in the right mindset to be the best I can be at what I do - I’m always fully dressed while working remotely. That is, if wearing a bow on my winkie counts as “dressed.” 
 
 






