Just learned of timers the other day, but I’m a cron guy, anybody out there using timers? Anything I’m missing out on?

  • thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Also a cron guy, but systemd timers can do things like run at a preset time after start up if a schedule was missed due to power off or system suspension, and you can get more information about a failed timer with journalctl. Arch wiki has lots of good info. Still, I’m a cron guy. 🤷‍♂️ Set in my ways

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      1 day ago

      You can do the same with cron btw depending on the OS(?). At least on debian systems. I think its @poweroff or @reboot if I recall correctly.