I would like to take this moment to say that your best bet is to comment out this entry in the Nix TA until Splunk has a better way to get sourcetypes from linux - cron is a great source of data but it doesn't seem that Splunk cares about making the data actually useful, at least in this instance. If you can create your own sourcetype, you should definitely share it on Github, but other than that, I don't know that we're going to be seeing any tools for this any time soon. There may be a good use case for a supplementary TA that adds onto the linux TA which monitors standard files and assigns/defines the correct sourcetypes for them.
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