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		aaronrobinson on Sept 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prevent duplicate cron job running Systemd is much more powerful than cron and manages your exact use case. You will need to deal with process hangs though if you have self dependencies like this.

the2ndfloorguy on Sept 4, 2021 [–]

Thanks for sharing. I will definitely look into this.

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