Hi David, > What is the best way to modify this scheme to prevent, e.g. > logrotate.time, man-db.timer and shadow.timer all trying to run on > boot? I'd rather set them up to run a 5:00 localtime as I would with > cronnie. But I do want to use the systemd timer, so what is the best > way to configure the systemd timer to schedule these things to run at > a convenient time instead of all firing on boot? Whilst you await a better answer, ‘RandomizedDelaySec=’ in systemd.timer(5) may be of interest. -- Cheers, Ralph.