On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Ricardo Fraile wrote: > I like some aspects of the .timer, but I don't know if the change is a good > idea or not at this moment? There are any other package that has changed > from cron to .timer? What is the official recomendation?
One significant difference between the two is that all cron output is sent via email, while output from systemd timers is not sent via email. There is no official recommendation here, but other packages have migrated from cron to systemd timers, with fallback to cron when systemd is not running. You can see the apt package for an example and there is also systemd-cron, which can be used to generate systemd timers from cron jobs, the results are placed in the /run/systemd/generator directory at boot time. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
