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You can also just use systemd timers :)

by champtar 5y ago

lugged 5y ago
cron is a lot nicer imo. All your schedules are in one place and everyone knows how to access it.
- pabs3 5y ago
  There is a systemd command for that: systemctl list-timers
- traceroute66 5y ago
  > cron is a lot nicer imo. How, exactly ? I've been a cron user forever, I had never heard of systemd timers until this thread. A quick internet search shows: - Nice clean config in a file (instead of having to edit crontab) - Lots of great features that you would have to manually implement and maintain in cron (e.g. missed launches, duplicate runs, random delay, timeouts) I mean sure, I've got bash script templates that let me solve the problem of preventing duplicate cron job running. But having seen how easy it is to achieve the same thing with systemd timers whilst not requiring a whole lot of boilerplate code in each shell file ... why wouldn't you switch to systemd timers ? I sure will be.
  - jbverschoor 5y ago
    The general consensus: "because it's systemd", "systemd is unstable", "systemd does too much", "systemd is non-unix". I like systemd. It's a good clone of launchd
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  - binarybanana 5y ago
    dcron is very lightweight and has most of those features. Dunno about random delay/timeouts, but worst case those sound like a 10 line shell script away. https://github.com/dubiousjim/dcron https://github.com/dubiousjim/dcron
    - traceroute66 5y ago
      > dcron is very lightweight and has most of those features. Hmm, let's see ... - Choice 1: Use what comes with my system (two choices, systemd or, if for the anti-systemd people... cron) - Choice 2: Install some random third-party that has not had any substancial git commits since 2014 (the 2019 commits are just admin metadata).
- MertsA 5y ago
  You can also just use systemd-cron :) https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron
ducktective 5y ago
Is there a TUI to manage systemd-timers?
sirius87 5y ago
Did not know. Thanks for sharing this. This looks mighty useful.

You can also just use systemd timers :)

lugged 5y ago

cron is a lot nicer imo. All your schedules are in one place and everyone knows how to access it.

pabs3 5y ago
There is a systemd command for that: systemctl list-timers
traceroute66 5y ago
> cron is a lot nicer imo. How, exactly ? I've been a cron user forever, I had never heard of systemd timers until this thread. A quick internet search shows: - Nice clean config in a file (instead of having to edit crontab) - Lots of great features that you would have to manually implement and maintain in cron (e.g. missed launches, duplicate runs, random delay, timeouts) I mean sure, I've got bash script templates that let me solve the problem of preventing duplicate cron job running. But having seen how easy it is to achieve the same thing with systemd timers whilst not requiring a whole lot of boilerplate code in each shell file ... why wouldn't you switch to systemd timers ? I sure will be.
- jbverschoor 5y ago
  The general consensus: "because it's systemd", "systemd is unstable", "systemd does too much", "systemd is non-unix". I like systemd. It's a good clone of launchd
  - deleted 5y ago
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- binarybanana 5y ago
  dcron is very lightweight and has most of those features. Dunno about random delay/timeouts, but worst case those sound like a 10 line shell script away. https://github.com/dubiousjim/dcron https://github.com/dubiousjim/dcron
  - traceroute66 5y ago
    > dcron is very lightweight and has most of those features. Hmm, let's see ... - Choice 1: Use what comes with my system (two choices, systemd or, if for the anti-systemd people... cron) - Choice 2: Install some random third-party that has not had any substancial git commits since 2014 (the 2019 commits are just admin metadata).
MertsA 5y ago
You can also just use systemd-cron :) https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron

ducktective 5y ago

Is there a TUI to manage systemd-timers?

sirius87 5y ago

Did not know. Thanks for sharing this. This looks mighty useful.