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Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by traverseda on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:06PM (#33914325)
>We also cant just disable a timer temporarily

Sure you can, comment that line out of the service file. It is ultimately just a text file that you can edit.

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Re:Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron by rektide on Thursday December 08, 2022 @07:46PM (#33915964)
Again, inventing arbitrary hacks totally on your own that none of the builtin tools will know about or help you do. This seems obviously worse than having a seperate services actuated by separate timers.
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