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I check the v4.1 manpage: "Ranges or lists of names are not allowed."
And the crontab entry parsing source sports a familiar phrase:
/ no numbers, look for a string if we have any /
So vixie-cron v4.1 seems to support named weekday & month ranges & lists, same as cronie.
But then I vaguely seemed to remember seeing Paul Vixie's name on #techtwitter somewhere... and sure enough: @paulvixie
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So... let's DM him. (Why not? Maybe he's as bored as I am.)
This post shares some ideas about working with cronjobs, to help make common tasks more easy for both junior and senior sysadmins.
systemd has become a mainstay for the Linux world, but one of the things that still seems to stick around is cron jobs. It’s understandable, as cron is a tool that we have been using for a long time. Change is hard, but I think systemd Timers make the change well worth it. Here are a few reasons why…