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

Maciej Puzio mx34567 at gmail.com
Fri May 9 14:37:41 EDT 2014


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Savyasachee Jha <savya.jha91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> They can, do refer to
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/cron_functionality where you
> can find some examples of the same.

Thank you for the link, it is quite interesting. A rather verbose
solution (in sheer number of files), but it does what I had in mind.
Hopefully, as more distros start to migrate away from cron, systemd
maintainers will simplify and standardize the configuration needed for
cron replacement.

Maciej Puzio


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