I taught myself a thing today
My job was created as a response to communication issues between two different school district departments. Basically, the curriculum department and the tech department needed a translator and someone to manage the systems that were solely the responsibility of the curriculum people (read: programs that were purchased to be integrated without understanding the work load or taking into account the capacity of the tech department). I love my job. I declared myself neutral territory and put up my own "flag" in my office. I also get to learn about all the things. Today, I learned about cron jobs. Automated jobs and/or scheduled tasks are not an unfamiliar concept for me. However, Linux is not something I've spent a lot of time with. I do have administrator access to the server where we house all that automation, but "break everything" wasn't on my to-do list for today. Instead, I installed an Ubuntu 18.04.01 virtual machine to poke at. Then I dug out