[arch-general] Comment on: Use systemd timers instead of /etc/cron.{hourly, daily, weekly, monthly}?

Leonid Isaev lisaev at umail.iu.edu
Thu May 8 14:17:24 EDT 2014


On Thu, 8 May 2014 14:24:45 +0900
Savyasachee Jha <savya.jha91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Perhaps a proper approach is to create a special target for your
> > maintainance
> > jobs which would pull all relevant services and would itself be triggered
> > by an
> > OnCalendar timer. Although I am not sure whether a timer can directly
> > trigger
> > a target yet...
> >
> >
> They can, do refer to
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/cron_functionality where you
> can find some examples of the same.
> 

Cool. I didn't know about that wikipage.

Thanks,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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