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