====== Several Tricks with Cron Jobs ======

===== Logging with systemd-cat =====
<code>/usr/bin/systemd-cat -t topic-name.cron "/path/to/command arg1 arg2 argN"</code>

===== Locking with flock =====
<code>flock -xn /path/to/lock -c "/path/to/command arg1 arg2 argN"</code>

===== Ping Monitoring with healthchecks.io =====
<code>... && curl -fsS --retry 3 https://hchk.io/deadbeef-dead-beef-dead-beefdeadbeef > /dev/null</code>

===== All-in-one =====
<code>flock -xn /srv/mastodon-bots/mastodon-rss-bot-linux-amd64.lock -c "AIRTABLE_API_KEY=keyDEADBEEFISGOOD AIRTABLE_BASE_ID=appDEADBEEFISGOOD /usr/bin/systemd-cat -t mastodon-rss-bot.cron /srv/mastodon-bots/mastodon-rss-bot-linux-amd64 && curl -fsS --retry 3 https://hchk.io/deadbeef-dead-beef-dead-beefdeadbeef > /dev/null"</code>

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