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

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[–] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Automatic failure handling, advanced logging, independent execution environment control, cgroups support, service dependency management...

On the negative side, it takes slightly more work to configure timed tasks and there's no integrated email support.

Refer to the Arch Wiki for more detailed information.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Email support was the bain of my existence. I forgot how many misconfigured system I came across decades ago that would fill up their filesystem with logs from crons in the root mail dir. Such a stupid default setting. We have vastly better methods for monitoring systems these days then firing off an email when a cron runs.

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