Anton Aylward wrote:
On 11/19/2014 11:32 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 05:27:53PM -0600, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
Help!
It has to have somethng to do with systemd
Either that's a joke or this is an obsession with you, blaming everything you dislike, that other people complain about, on systemd.
Like "jdd's" comment on using film based pictures vs. electronic, you seem to miss <content=silly> based humor.
That's not to say that you can't do exactly what this present scheme is going using systemd timers:
Oh, wait! That's actually easier! You can set io scheduling priority as well as cpu scheduling priority!
Gee... and shell scripts have only had that ability for a decade or so?
Personally, as a 24/7 style user I think this idea of scheduling *ALL* the jobs to run *every* day at the same time is what is wrong headed.
If you use 'crontabs', they run like the old cron. Only things put in /etc/cron.{timeperiod}, get run under the new method. Backups and snapshots -- all get run with remarkable regularity: Home-2014.10.23-03.07.02 Data -wi-ao--- 800.00m Home-2014.10.31-03.07.03 Data -wi-ao--- 892.00m Home-2014.11.04-03.07.03 Data -wi-ao--- 1.65g Home-2014.11.06-03.07.06 Data -wi-ao--- 884.00m Home-2014.11.08-03.07.02 Data -wi-ao--- 740.00m Home-2014.11.10-03.07.02 Data -wi-ao--- 250.97g Home-2014.11.12-03.07.07 Data -wi-ao--- 1.89g Home-2014.11.17-03.07.07 Data -wi-ao--- 1.39g Home-2014.11.18-03.07.05 Data -wi-ao--- 4.75g Home-2014.11.20-03.07.08 Data -wi-ao--- 1016.00m Home-2014.11.21-03.07.02 Data -wi-ao--- 1.60g Home-2014.11.22-03.07.02 Data swi-aos-- 1.50t Home 0.12 ---- Snapshot partitions and when they were created by this crontab entry: 7 3 * * * /bin/bash /home/law/bin/snaphome Notice the timestamp embedded in the names... all within 2-8 seconds past 3:07am.
The old CRON and the systemd.timer allowed for things like "not at weekends" and "last Friday of the month". And also for more than once a day but not hourly.
--- Cron can still do this: 30 4 2 1-12/3 * /root/bin/dumpshare 0 30 4 9-31/7 1-12/3 * /root/bin/dumpshare 30 4 2-31/7 2-12/3 * /root/bin/dumpshare 30 4 2-31/7 3-12/3 * /root/bin/dumpshare
Perhaps we need an alternate package, rather like the ability to install Postscript OR Exim OR Sendmail. Something like Laptop-CRON or Desktop-CRON or Server-CRON. The current cron being the Laptop-CRON.
I think you want "AND" -- so you can choose what you want, like:
rpm -qa|grep cron
cronie-1.4.8-50.1.2.x86_64 cron-4.2-50.1.2.x86_64 Just use both. Wait, don't tell me, the new Xd doesn't allow this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org