I've been working as a Linux admin and using Cron regularly, so I don't think of it as outdated. However, I noticed a setting called 'Legacy Background Tasks' in macOS after I created a cronjob. Is Cron considered legacy? I want to understand the real status of Cron, especially in Mac environments.
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I'm still using Cron for scheduled reports on one of my VMs. I think the cloud scheduler in GCP is just a fancy version of Cron, isn't it? So, while it may be deemed legacy, it's still useful in many scenarios.
Honestly, I feel like macOS tries to distance itself from traditional Unix systems. Cron might be labeled legacy there, but it still works perfectly fine on my Linux servers, so I don't see it going away anytime soon.
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