Allow commented-out cron jobs.

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Allow commented-out cron jobs.

Suppose we have a cron job that runs every 5 minutes.

*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/someprogram

We think this might be too often, so we replicate this line a few times, edit it, and comment out all but one.

# */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/someprogram
15 0,12 * * * * /usr/local/bin/someprogram
# 15 0,8,16 * * * /usr/local/bin/someprogram
# 15 7 * * * /usr/local/bin/someprogram

Now we can uncomment any one of these lines at a time, while we are looking for the right frequency for this job.

Unfortunately, as soon as we make any change from DirectAdmin's cron jobs screen, all the commented-out lines get deleted. This is loss of data.

As mentioned in a couple of other feature requests,[1],[2] comments should generally be permitted and preserved.

[1] feedback.directadmin.com/b/feature-requests/allow-arbitrary-private-comments-almost-everywhere/
[2] feedback.directadmin.com/b/feature-requests/allow-and-preserve-dns-comments/

2020-10-12 -

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Allow commented-out cron jobs.

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