Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron

Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by bravetraveler on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:06PM (#33913402)

I think timers handle this fine -- one part sets up the work (service), the other sets up the scheduling of the job (timer)

Speaking of behavior, let's look at cron.

Consider every time you've written one. There's a good chance that it failed for some time because you forgot PATH is make believe there

Or logging. How many times has rotation been rewritten (and broken)?

Without digging through logs that may or may not exist, can you tell me when it last ran successfully?

I can with timers, 'for free'

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Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by traverseda on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:24PM (#33913648)

I'm definitely not saying someone couldn't write a better cron, or that it doesn't have warts. Still, put 1/10th of the budget towards cron that went towards this and I think you'd get something a lot more usable.

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