On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:24 AM Russ Allbery wrote: > Timer units are also a more complicated problem since they're not a > superset of cron behavior. They do some things better than cron jobs; > they do other things much *worse* than cron jobs. I have cron jobs that I > wanted to convert to timer units and discovered I couldn't because timers > simply wouldn't work for what I was trying to do.
Could you give some examples of the issues you discovered with systemd timers? BTW, we have in systemd-cron a tool for generating systemd units from crontab/etc. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
