On Tue, 04.03.14 15:54, Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hello, > 2014-03-04 15:32 GMT+01:00 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > = Proposed System Wide Change: cron to systemd time units = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cron-to-systemd-time-units It is probably time to port over these jobs now. With systemd 209+ we should have a somewhat comprehensive solution in systemd now that can do roughly what cron can do, plus some nice additional features (though minus a couple of others). I am looking into adding a couple of more things before the Fedora release, in order to make this functionality convincing enough that people can understand why this change is made. For example, I want support for timer events that can wake up the system, and simple anacron-like behaviour. I'd also like to make sure we sell this properly. While I think it should be a goal to port all cronjobs we *ship* over to this, I want to make sure that cron is advertised as a good solution for people who just want to queue a simple cronjob. This is because setting up a timer service is more complex than setting up a cronjob. A cronjob is a single line added to "crontab -e" or /etc/crontab. However, a systemd timer unit will always be two files, and they will have 2+ lines each. While the systemd way is certainly more uniform with the rest of service management, it is definitely a bit more work, and I don't want to be in competition here... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
