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[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

How are systemd timers not a solution looking for a problem?

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Cron already exists and is established as the solution in this space. It's also used as the model for a lot of other timer services outside the Linux kernel.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 4 months 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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