Ben Cotton

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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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How I use cron in Linux

One problem I used to have in an old job was cron jobs that would hang for some reason. This old sysadvent post had some good suggestions for how to deal with that: http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2009/12/cron-practices.html

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How I use cron in Linux

Great article, David. One minor correction. `crontab -e` will use whatever the default editor is. So if you happen to prefer `nano`, for example, you can set your `EDITOR` environment variable to nano.