On 2026-01-06 03:24, William Park via Talk 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
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I use crontab for simple one shot tasks at a specified time and tasks that need to run on an interval basis (e.g. every 5 minutes). Examples include: - apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade --d -y - some web scrapers - generate notification emails (at midnight) from a calendar system I use systemd for things i want to run, be monitored and be restarted immediately on failure., - other web scrapers - music player daemons - network status monitoring agents I have written Simple and standalone -> crontab More complex, with startup dependencies -> systemd -- Michael Galea