On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 03:24:49 -0500 William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all,
1. For cron jobs, do you use - systemd timer/service, eg. job.timer, job.service, OR - traditional crontab from /etc/cron.daily/job, ... ?
2. After translating to "systemd" scripts, how is the maintenance?
--William
William, I use cron, just like Ron, out of inertia. You can comment your crontab file to make it more readable. # day day # of of # minute hour mon mon week command ############################################### 30 04 * * * DoSomething 50 10 * * tue DoSomethingElse 50 10 * * tue DoYetAnotherThing -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson