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Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron



On 2022-03-13 01:07, Simon McVittie wrote:
> - reserving an environment variable like SKIP_CRON_JOB_UNDER_SYSTEMD=1
>   to act as a request to skip parsing this cron job on systemd systems
>   (it would also be set like any other environment variable when the cron
>   job is executed on a non-systemd system, but that should generally be
>   harmless, because programs are generally expected to ignore unknown
>   environment variables)

I guess I overlooked this at first, because this sounds like a really
simple solution, 3 LOC or so.

It also shouldn't conflict with anything else out there.



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