The crontab edit that loaded a stale /tmp file
I wanted to bump the cadence of one cron job from every 15 minutes to every 10. Three minutes later, seven of my scheduled jobs were gone — replaced with…
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A wall-clock guard so cron jobs don't drift across DST
I wanted a nightly job to fire at exactly 00:00 Central, every night, forever. Debian's vixie-cron doesn't support CRON_TZ, and the host runs in UTC. The…
Read →Route files were losing the immutable bit
I set chattr +i on my backend's main.py after a sync bug kept silently overwriting it. Months later, the iOS app started losing connectivity on a…
Read →Workspace permission denied when SCP'ing from automation runner
I have a small homelab automation runner that orchestrates jobs across a handful of remote machines. New job, new bug: SCP transfers from the runner to a…
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