Cron jobs

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Since we last checked in, Pumpkin Man’s cybernetic brains developed the ability to start up automatically and self-update. Also, there’s a new control interface for operating all eight relays. And perhaps most importantly, the team working on his physical form have made great strides. He now stands triumphantly!

I erased all of my cronjobs by accident due to a simple typo.

When working with cron jobs, the command crontab -e is used to edit your crontab. This command is one letter off from crontab -r, which erases your cron jobs without any confirmation prompt. On a QWERTY keyboard, the e and r keys are adjacent, which makes it especially easy to type the wrong one by accident. I accidentally typed the wrong thing, and *poof*, my cronjobs disappeared.