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maintenance crontab entries not accepted by some cron implementations

Subject: maintenance crontab entries not accepted by some cron implementations

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One message between Mar 11, 2026 and Mar 11, 2026.

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D. Ben Knoble· Mar 11, 2026, 13:40 UTC · lore

In particular, I've just reported a bug with fcron [1] that their parsing is broken. Some workarounds are available, and I hope fcron will fix the bug, so no action is necessarily required here. Just wanted to let you all know.

[1]: https://github.com/yo8192/fcron/issues/46

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