[Labs-l] IMPORTANT: cron update

Thu May 1 17:42:42 UTC 2014

You know, making your own personal backups of crontabs is always a good thing.  I maintain a backup every time I modify it.

On May 1, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten at mdammers.nl> wrote:

> Dear Marc,
> 
> Marc A. Pelletier schreef op 1-5-2014 2:31:
>> Due to a (really) stupid mistake on my part, I have managed to
>> completely lose the crontab of any tool which had automatic changes
>> applied to it (the process which was supposed to make a backup before
>> any changes failed).
> I know you're trying really hard to replicate the Toolserver user experience, but could you please leave out the bad parts?
> 
>> This affects approximately 50 tools.
>> 
>> Please accept my most sincere apologies for the work and lost data this
>> might cause.
> Wasting volunteer time is free, right? I assume you now set up a proper backup of the crontabs to prevent future loss of data?
> 
> Maarten
> 
> 
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