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.