Proposed F19 Feature: systemd features

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jaroslav Reznik writes:

> Announcing various systemd features in one announcement, see bellow:
>
> = Features/SystemdCalendarTimers =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdCalendarTimers
>
> Feature owner(s): Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering dot net>
>
> systemd has supported timer units for activating services based on time since
> its inception. However, it only could schedule services based on monotonic
> time events (i.e. "every 5 minutes"). With this feature in place systemd also
> supports calendar time events (i.e. "every monday morning 6:00 am", or "at
> midnight on every 1st, 2nd, 3rd of each month if that's saturday or sunday").

So, systemd wants to reinvent cron?

Based on systemd's prior track record of various parts breaking randomly  
(namely the PrivateTmp fiasco), not really looking forward to this.

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