Recommended Cron Practices (SysAdvent Day 8)

My tip when using cron: Use comments liberally. Say what the command is doing, where to find out more information and write your name so that when I open up the crontab on some system I can actually find out what it is supposed to be doing. Comments are essential in a script which is not under any version control and is shared by many different users.

What you really want is a scheduler that can handle all this for you, so you don't have to write the same management gunk into every script you run with cron.<p>It would also be nice to be able to express "the first Saturday of each month" for backup jobs, so you don't have to run a script every Saturday which carefully avoids doing work after the 7th.