Thank you, Richard. you answered another question I had about one. I can now fix all of my cronjobs to be .service/.timer pairs.
Trever On 06/15/2017 03:18 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Trever L. Adams > <tre...@middleearth.sapphiresunday.org > <mailto:tre...@middleearth.sapphiresunday.org>> wrote: > > I am needing a bit of help. I am converting some of my old crontab > entries to xxx.timer and xxx.service systemd files. I have the > following > (the system is a backup server that can be woken by magic packets or > some amount of time before the backups run): > > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rtcwake -m mem -t $(/usr/bin/date +\%s -d 'today > 23:50') > /dev/null > > It yeilds: > > Invalid escape sequences in line, correcting: "/usr/sbin/rtcwake > -m mem > -t $(/usr/bin/date +\%s -d 'today 23:50') > /dev/null" > > > Is there a way to correct this easily, or am I going to have to turn > that line into a separate shell script? > > > SystemD executes the binaries directly without a shell so you can't > use shell variables and such. You could write a script or I think > prepending /usr/bin/bash on the front may work. You may need to put > the commands in quotes. Google should find you an example. > > Thanks, > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
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