Are comments allowed in a cron file?

[Hilde Bell]

Read the subject. I was just wondering, so I can keep my cron jobs straight.

[Joe Bobisuthi]

you could always make a copy of them, and put the comments there. That's what I did when I was messing around with them.

[marcromansky]

off the top of my head, I think the # is the delimeter for a comment. Comments are DEFINATELY OK and necessary.

When you have an ERP system down and know that cron jobs run that have dependancies on other cron jobs, you want to be able to look at a description of the job rather than having to figure it out. many jobs look exactly the same except for the locations of some commands, so having clear comments can save a horrible catastrophe

[marcromansky]

I don't think I was as clear as I could have been. When you have cron job dependencies, and a system is down you may have to comment out jobs so they don't run until that down system is up. having commentted descriptions helps find them faster so they don't fire off while you are trying to figure out which one to comment out.

[quote="marcromansky"]off the top of my head, I think the # is the delimeter for a comment. Comments are DEFINATELY OK and necessary.

When you have an ERP system down and know that cron jobs run that have dependancies on other cron jobs, you want to be able to look at a description of the job rather than having to figure it out. many jobs look exactly the same except for the locations of some commands, so having clear comments can save a horrible catastrophe[/quote]

[Leif Husman]

I put:
# minute day weekday etc.
so I could see what all the numbers meant and it worked just fine.


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