On Tue, 6 May 2014 13:23:26 -0500 Maciej Puzio <mx34567@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As I wrote before, I can edit every timer file and set the elapse > time. What I can't do is to change one setting which says when daily > maintenance tasks are run. This was possible with cron, but is no > longer possible now. What's the problem to edit four files? Well, this > is multiplied by the number of machines that are under my care. > Again, here is relevant systemd RFE link: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77938 This is bogus. See "man 7 systemd.time"; what you want is something like "OnCalendar=*-*-* 04:10:20" for a job that runs every day at 4:10:20 AM. > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Systemd timers (at least in the current form) are _not_ cron replacement. > > However, they are adequate for daily maintainance jobs that are shipped > > with packages. If you had custom, carefully scheduled cron jobs, you should > > continue using cronie. What I don't understand is why do you care when > > man-db/updatedb runs? After re-reading the documentation I have to take this back, systemd timers seem to implement all features provided by cronie. Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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