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A better approach might be the time since the last successful run; I had the misfortune of having to support a workflow that assumed the last job ran an hour prior once...

thrig
– thrig

2017-04-20 18:18:16 +00:00
Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 18:18
Oh, been there; done that. I ended up writing this probably-too-convoluted job that dropped state files in /var/run which subsequent instances of the job would inspect.

DopeGhoti
– DopeGhoti

2017-04-20 18:25:15 +00:00
Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 18:25

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