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Always explicitly set the path to whatever it is in your shell, it's usually something to do with this.


Yep. Time honored tradition, every cron is edited at least twice. Once to put it there, again to fix PATH.

Everyone who does this enough knows it, everyone else [hopefully] rediscovers. Honest to goodness decades-long cargo culture.

I prefer not having this problem, using "systemd timers" instead. The job and any forked work have a reasonable default path, and observability is worlds better.

Did the last run succeed? When is the next? One command with timers, a guess with cron.


Literally the only issue I’ve had with cron was a bug [0] for an absurd edge case that I found and fixed.

[0]: https://bugs-devel.debian.org/1019716


Congratulations, myself and several dozens of people I know/mentor have repeated the history I mentioned


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Seems very bad to me (SysAdmin/Generalist Engineer).

Of the few interviews I've done this year, they've been rather HR centric and lacking in technical content. I usually get a follow-up interview, followed by an unspecific rejection (or 'culture-fit') even after a seemingly positive discussion.


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