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Working with systemd timers - Dmitry Kudryavtsev (yieldcode.blog)

submitted 5 days ago by maxint@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

cron is quite inadequate for condition based scheduling. Instead of million obscure ways to achieve this inside the command that cron executes, systemd timers give us a standard ONE way to do things.

I feel like systemd timers follow unix philosophy better than cron at this day and age.

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