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Ask HN: What's in your crontab?

5•greyface-•3h ago
Do you still have a personal crontab in 2025? What sorts of jobs does it contain? What cron daemon runs it? Where is it hosted?

Comments

roscas•3h ago
Crontab only has scripts for programs that do not have log rotation capability.
stop50•3h ago
Not a real crontab. Only systemd timers. One for updating the AUR repos i use. One for updating my most used container base images. And lastly one for downloading my os and flatpak package updates, so that i can run `pacman -Su` and `flatpak update --no-pull` without waiting for slow downloads.
Bender•2h ago
- 3 gratuitous arps every minute

- 'chronyc makestep'

- Overwrite the console with ASCII art.

- Refresh DNS A/NS cache for a few hundred domains in Unbound DNS.

- fstrim once a week.

- Custom log rotate and truncate.

- RSnapshot

- Gateway check, arp deletions if gateway fail-over occurs.

Some of that on workstations, some on servers, some on both.

roosgit•2h ago
# Runs the DB backup script on Thu at 22:00 -- I download the database backup for a few websites that get new data every week. I do this in case my host bans my account.

# Runs the IP change check on Mon - Sun at 09:00, 10:30, 12:00, 20:00 -- If the power goes out or the router reboots I get a new IP. On the server I use fail2ban and if I log into the admin panel I might get banned for making too many requests. So my IP needs to be "blessed".

# Runs Letsencrypt certificate expiry check on Sundays at 11:00 and 18:00 -- I still have a server where I update the certificates by hand.

# Runs the "daily" backup -- Just rsync

# Download Godaddy auction data every day at 19:00 -- I don't actively do this anymore but I used to check, based on certain criteria, for domains that were about to expire.

# Download the sellers.json on the 1st of every month at 19:00 -- I use this to collect data on websites that appear and disappear from the Mediavine and Adthrive sellers.json

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