[sfink]

Huh, I ignored this article because it sounded like such a solved problem, but it stayed on the home page long enough that I thought I might be missing something.

Not only was it exactly what I expected from the title, there were 3 obvious but unimportant flaws in the "Ubuntu/Debian" setup section:

- a cron line that runs every 60 minutes is commented as running every 5

- unnecessary crond restart. Not just reload, which would already be redundant, but a full restart

- unnecessarily restrictive heading. There's nothing specific to Ubuntu/Debian in those instructions

I mean, it's a fine solution, like the 100s of others out there. I'm not trying to throw shade on the author; they've made something a little more flexible than most one-offs, without going overboard like the ones that handle dozens of different services. But... why the front page? Why the upvotes? Can't you kids just stay off of the damn lawn?!

[tobi_b]

I created an account just to comment on this: I tell you something, you are "throwing shade" on the author - even if this is a "kid", were you born and immediately started to invent (insert complex tech) from scratch? This guy did a nice job and wanted to share his work with us and appearently many others appreciate it and thus it ended up on the front page. Comments which's only intention is to make some other's work smaller and seemingly "unworthy" are just sad and unnecessary.

[aesopsfable]

Hey Tobi, thank you! This is HN, so that is fully expected, but it’s all fun and good. I made this super quickly and just wanted to share in case anyone needed it. I only saw it today—reached the front page and got 444 stars! I’m as surprised as the shade guy :)