1. For cron jobs, do you use > - systemd timer/service, eg. job.timer, job.service, OR > -
William Park via Talk wrote on 2026-01-06 00:24: traditional crontab from /etc/cron.daily/job, ... ? As I said before, I mostly use cron due to muscle memory, but it seems systemd timers have more useful features. For example, "what is going to run next, when? Also, what has run, how long ago, what were the results?" One could use a tool like those from https://crontab.io/ if using cron. Or, systemctl list-timers (composing in HTML to get fixed-width font): NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES Wed 2026-01-07 02:57:19 PST 20min Tue 2026-01-06 03:20:10 PST 23h ago mdmonitor-oneshot.timer mdmonitor-oneshot.service Wed 2026-01-07 03:09:01 PST 32min Wed 2026-01-07 02:08:07 PST 28min ago fwupd-refresh.timer fwupd-refresh.service Wed 2026-01-07 06:00:42 PST 3h 24min Tue 2026-01-06 06:49:26 PST 19h ago apt-daily-upgrade.timer apt-daily-upgrade.service Wed 2026-01-07 07:33:28 PST 4h 56min Tue 2026-01-06 23:33:53 PST 3h 2min ago anacron.timer anacron.service Wed 2026-01-07 08:40:15 PST 6h Tue 2026-01-06 20:25:58 PST 6h ago motd-news.timer motd-news.service Wed 2026-01-07 09:32:23 PST 6h Tue 2026-01-06 21:30:04 PST 5h 6min ago apt-daily.timer apt-daily.service Wed 2026-01-07 10:53:48 PST 8h Tue 2026-01-06 03:00:40 PST 23h ago plocate-updatedb.timer plocate-updatedb.service Wed 2026-01-07 13:35:58 PST 10h Tue 2026-01-06 15:54:19 PST 10h ago neon-apt-clean.timer neon-apt-clean.service Wed 2026-01-07 15:09:15 PST 12h Tue 2026-01-06 15:09:15 PST 11h ago update-notifier-download.timer update-notifier-download.service Wed 2026-01-07 15:19:12 PST 12h Tue 2026-01-06 15:19:12 PST 11h ago systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service Thu 2026-01-08 00:00:00 PST 21h Wed 2026-01-07 00:00:01 PST 2h 36min ago atop-rotate.timer atop-rotate.service Thu 2026-01-08 00:00:00 PST 21h Wed 2026-01-07 00:00:01 PST 2h 36min ago dpkg-db-backup.timer dpkg-db-backup.service Thu 2026-01-08 00:00:00 PST 21h Wed 2026-01-07 00:00:01 PST 2h 36min ago logrotate.timer logrotate.service Thu 2026-01-08 02:05:33 PST 23h Wed 2026-01-07 00:19:48 PST 2h 16min ago man-db.timer man-db.service Sun 2026-01-11 03:10:09 PST 4 days Sun 2026-01-04 03:10:27 PST 2 days ago e2scrub_all.timer e2scrub_all.service Mon 2026-01-12 01:25:04 PST 4 days Mon 2026-01-05 00:42:28 PST 2 days ago fstrim.timer fstrim.service Sat 2026-01-17 17:22:39 PST 1 week 3 days Mon 2026-01-05 15:00:00 PST 1 day 11h ago update-notifier-motd.timer update-notifier-motd.service Sun 2026-02-01 09:08:25 PST 3 weeks 4 days Sun 2026-01-04 19:41:27 PST 2 days ago mdcheck_start.timer mdcheck_start.service 18 timers listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive timers, too.