On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
... However, systemd
> does not support natively to stop services by timer, currently. This
> means for the "systemctl stop" part you always have to explicitly
> invoke it.
Does it make sense to implement this
On Mon, 01.08.16 23:59, John (da_audioph...@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Is it possible to use a systemd timer unit to start and stop a
> service unit according to set times of the day? In my case,
> openvpn.service is a forking type if that matters. I can do this
> using cron, but am wondering if/how to
>
> From: Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com>
>To: systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
>Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 6:38 AM
>Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Emulate two cron tab entries to start/stop
>service unit natively?
>
>
Am Mon, 1 Aug 2016 23:59:13 + (UTC)
schrieb John :
> Is it possible to use a systemd timer unit to start and stop a
> service unit according to set times of the day? In my case,
> openvpn.service is a forking type if that matters. I can do this
> using cron, but am
Is it possible to use a systemd timer unit to start and stop a service unit
according to set times of the day? In my case, openvpn.service is a forking
type if that matters. I can do this using cron, but am wondering if/how to do
it with systemd natively.
In cron terms, one could do this like