Hi!
When trying to adjust a timer that ran with "OnCalendar=daily" to a period like
15 minutes, I made a series of mistakes (after having read systemd.time), so I
can make a number of suggestions for improvement:
First I had tried to put the specification inside double-quotes as the string
contained a space. The result was a syntax error ("Failed to parse calendar
specification"). Couldn't systemd just tolerate the unneeded double-quotes?
I had succeeded for 30 minutes, listing "00,30" in the minutes field, but when
I wanted to change it to 5 minutes, I thought the list would become too ugly
(i.e.: long), so I tried the "slash syntax".
Unfortunately "*-*-* *:00/5m:00" and "*-*-* *:/5m:00" weren't accepted, just as
plain "/5m" was not. Couldn't the first two be accepted, even though the
minutes are redundant? And for the last one: Why can't it be accepted; it would
look so nice and clean, and (IMHO) it's unambiguous, too.
The eventual syntax I used was "*-*-* *:00/5:00" (for "every 5 minutes"). Isn't
it "more ugly then needed"?
Kind regards,
Ulrich
