Systemd timers or classic cron? (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 weeks ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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Just learned of timers the other day, but I'm a cron guy, anybody out there using timers? Anything I'm missing out on?

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[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

Usually I want to run things daily, weekly or monthlyand systemd timers make that very easy.

While crontab also has keywords for @daily, @weekly and @monthly, the automatic logging of systemd is useful and your example shows that it additionally allows to specify delays. I don't know how anacron handles the latter.

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