On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 05:20:08PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > On 14/04/2019 16:22, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Hi! > > The auto-update functionality is for some reason systemd only, despite not > > actually using any systemd features. This makes it broken on any other > > init/rc system for no gain. > > > > Could you please convert the .service/.timer to a init script and/or cron > > job? > > > Anything is possible but... in this case ddupdate installs as a user program > without anything running as root. Things like cron or init scripts are > requires root permissions
It's same as for systemd, which also runs as root -- only the syntax is different. There's "runuser"; on a default install exim4 and popcon use it. > And, cron jobs are nowhere as flexible as systemd timers. You have two timers: one every 1h (the usual cron way), and another 2min after boot. What's the point of the second if you already have an oneshot service? > OTOH, it would of course be possible to add alternative solutions like cron > jobs to the package. This would requires patches to ddupdate-config, but > should otherwise be trivial. But to be honest, I'm more in a "patches > welcome" state on this -- I'm just not motivated to make such fixes myself. I don't use ddupdate myself anymore (I don't even remember if I used ddupdate or one of the alternatives), thus it might be more for an actual user. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Did ya know that typing "test -j8" instead of "ctest -j8" ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ will make your testsuite pass much faster, and fix bugs? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
