On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > If the cron job is removed – necessarily entailed by “replace it”, > surely? – then how can they continue to use it after it is replaced by > something else?
I would discourage removal of the cron job, but it could still be replaced by a systemd timer when running under systemd, without removing the cron job, so machines running sysvinit+cron can work the same. The example I gave of apt has a cron job script that exits quickly when run under systemd and for sysvinit it reimplements the features of systemd that the apt systemd timer uses (require AC power, randomise start time) and then calls the same script that the apt systemd service uses. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise