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enneff on May 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cronic - A cure for Cron's chronic email problem

You're bang on. Commands should do what you tell them and say nothing unless something unexpected occurred. (or, if you asked them to say something)

Cron isn't broken. It's chatty programs that are broken.

regularfry on May 25, 2012 [–]

So you can scream at the darkness or light a candle. It doesn't matter which is broken if you can only fix one.

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