-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2017-02-27 13:38, Ruediger Meier wrote:
On Monday 27 February 2017, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Even in the generic case it doesn't matter what daemon actually runs /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}. As long as the scripts are run as expected nobody should care whether it's cron or systemd. So we could easily get rid of cron in a minimal install at least.
Hopefully not removing DAILY_TIME functionality in /etc/sysconfig/cron.
And of course we still need to keep /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} for compatibility because it's not only used by distrubution but by admin's custom scripts.
Yes.
Beside this I personally don't like that distribution's units, timers, etc. are usually installed into /usr. In past mostly everything which happens on a system could be found in /etc. Nowadays weird services or timers might be installed by updates or new packages and watching /etc (even using git) became useless.
That too.
The shell script that wakes up every 15 minutes just to find out that there's nothing to do deserves to be reworked after 19 years of service :-)
I can't remember any issues since at least 15 years. Maybe this is one good reason to keep it as is.
Indeed! If the current system works, why change it?
BTW on my 42,2 systems I can see only one active timer: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
... and this service is really bad in comparison to the old "clean-tmpfiles script". The old one was carefully developed over years and did not removed active sockets for example.
Absolutely. And the current one doesn't seem to clean all tmp files right.
So if we really want to avoid cron's 15min-wakeup thing then I would suggest only adding 4 systemd timers hourly,daily,weekly,monthly which simply call the scripts from the /etc/cron.* dirs in alphabetically order.
At least that. And be able to choose the preferred run time in the current place. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAli0MzMACgkQja8UbcUWM1x95gD/bK/uJilbzXkq73Qt98U/Bahw 7n1GeocSC4jwieOPHSIA/Rj/S54z9UIX9DPg4PsMo0H8RkprRiSOeGge4mKegSZJ =VhRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org