Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron

Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by marbu on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:46PM (#33913122)

This split between service file (what is going to happen exactly) and a timer file (when it's going to happen) is ok for complex use cases, but it really feels a bit silly when a single cron line would do the trick instead.

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Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by ilyt on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:48PM (#33914030)

there is cmdline shortcut for one-off ones at the very least

    systemd-run --user --unit=timer-name --on-active=60 /exec/path

will run it in 60 seconds

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Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by marbu on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:26AM (#33920154)

Nice, thanks for sharing this.

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Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by hagbarddenstore on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:35PM (#33913815)

You can still use cron if you want...

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Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by marbu on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:53AM (#33920288)

Also the split allows easier debugging: one can define and run the service, check that it works, and then define a timer and test that separately.

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