Hi, On Fri, 21 May 2021, Derrick Stolee wrote: > On 5/21/2021 5:59 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > > On 21/05/21 05.13, Lénaïc Huard wrote: > >> The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done > >> through cron. On Linux systems managed by systemd, systemd provides an > >> alternative to schedule recurring tasks: systemd timers. > >> > >> The main motivations to implement systemd timers in addition to cron > >> are: > >> * cron is optional and Linux systems running systemd might not have it > >> installed. > >> * The execution of `crontab -l` can tell us if cron is installed but not > >> if the daemon is actually running. > >> * With systemd, each service is run in its own cgroup and its logs are > >> tagged by the service inside journald. With cron, all scheduled tasks > >> are running in the cron daemon cgroup and all the logs of the > >> user-scheduled tasks are pretended to belong to the system cron > >> service. > >> Concretely, a user that doesn’t have access to the system logs won’t > >> have access to the log of its own tasks scheduled by cron whereas he > >> will have access to the log of its own tasks scheduled by systemd > >> timer. > > > > For gender neutrality, we can use he/she instead. > > Singular "they" is better. Fully accurate and less awkward. I agree. If the singular they was good enough for Shakespeare, it is good enough for anyone. See for yourself: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002748.html Ciao, Dscho
