Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 11:47:33 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 14, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> > AFAICT OnSuccess/OnFailure services don't recieve the output of the
> > succeeding/failing service. So the mail sending service needs to dig
> > around in the systemd journal.
>
> Yes, this is true. These are the unit and script that I use, and I think
> that Debian would benefit from having something like this available in
> some common package.
systemd-cron has something very similar, which it uses for the units that
it generates from crontab entries.
> I think that there is still space for cron jobs and for having a cron
> package installed by default
I'm not sure whether systemd-cron is ready to be that default yet, but
it might be a good candidate for people who are interested in cron jobs
to work on?
(I use it myself, but I am not involved in maintaining it.)
smcv
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