On 31/08/16 01:47, gn...@raf.org wrote: > In the cronjob, "*/4" is invalid on > systemd systems (or at least Debian8)
In Debian 8, the default cron daemon seems to come from the package 'cron'. I don't think you get the 'systemd-cron' package by default: you need to explicitly install it, and uninstall the 'Prio: important' package 'cron'. Either way, I was unable to reproduce this. I installed systemd-cron, and it accepted my "*/4" happily (and did indeed run the command every four minutes). Though I no longer was able to edit my crontab as a regular user, I needed root to do it with "crontab -u peter". Do you have a Debian bug reference for this? I don't see it. The snippet Werner quoted from the man page is also in the man page from 'systemd-cron', by the way. I get the feeling systemd-cron is for supporting "legacy" stuff, and people who go all-out systemd will use systemd facilities such as timers to implement stuff "legacy people" ;-) do with crontabs. Cheers, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter> _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
