The author fails to mention you can also use timers to do schedules like "every 15 minutes, 5 minutes after the systemd started". Very useful for scheduling automatic updates or backups.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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systemd is a relatively new utility that provides an array of components for Linux systems.
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Snideness aside, systemd timers can be pretty neat. They also have some features like being able to specify "Daily" and setting some looseness in when it triggers if you e.g. have a fleet of machines and don't want them all to do something at exactly the same time.
To be fair, it is relatively new. Cron will be 50 this year which blows my fucking mind.