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On Mar 4, 2014 10:52 AM, "Lennart Poettering" <<a href="mailto:mzerqung@0pointer.de">mzerqung@0pointer.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, 04.03.14 15:54, Miloslav Trmač (<a href="mailto:mitr@volny.cz">mitr@volny.cz</a>) wrote:<br>
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> > Hello,<br>
> > 2014-03-04 15:32 GMT+01:00 Jaroslav Reznik <<a href="mailto:jreznik@redhat.com">jreznik@redhat.com</a>>:<br>
> ><br>
> > > = Proposed System Wide Change: cron to systemd time units =<br>
> > > <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cron-to-systemd-time-units">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cron-to-systemd-time-units</a><br>
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> It is probably time to port over these jobs now. With systemd 209+ we<br>
> should have a somewhat comprehensive solution in systemd now that can do<br>
> roughly what cron can do, plus some nice additional features (though<br>
> minus a couple of others).<br>
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> I am looking into adding a couple of more things before the Fedora<br>
> release, in order to make this functionality convincing enough that<br>
> people can understand why this change is made. For example, I want<br>
> support for timer events that can wake up the system, and simple<br>
> anacron-like behaviour.<br>
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> I'd also like to make sure we sell this properly. While I think it<br>
> should be a goal to port all cronjobs we *ship* over to this, I want to<br>
> make sure that cron is advertised as a good solution for people who just<br>
> want to queue a simple cronjob. This is because setting up a timer<br>
> service is more complex than setting up a cronjob. A cronjob is a single<br>
> line added to "crontab -e" or /etc/crontab. However, a systemd timer<br>
> unit will always be two files, and they will have 2+ lines each. While<br>
> the systemd way is certainly more uniform with the rest of service<br>
> management, it is definitely a bit more work, and I don't want to be in<br>
> competition here...<br>
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> Lennart<br>
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> --<br>
> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat<br>
> --</p>
<p dir="ltr">Will there be a way for regular users to use timer units? User= will execute as a regular user, sure, but root still needs to set that up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--Pete</p>