On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 07:50:28 +0100, nicholas
it seems we have 2 systems for default timed events - systemd and cron - why? - 2 systems is 2X things to learn, 2X things to monitor, 2X things to go wrong
so, keep cron :)
- systemd has a (very) nice interface/overview "systemctl list-timers --all"
nice is in the eye of the beholder. I really really like the simple ASCII interface of cron. If you start your crontabs with these, lines, there are no questions left: --8<--- # minute 0-59 # hour 0-23 # day of month 1-31 # month 1-12 (or names, see below) # day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) -->8---
- from limited experience cron bugs/problems can be quite opaque so why is everything not moved to systemd?
Portability! I run projects on Linux (multiple flavors), HP-UX, AIX and probably some others. For *me* cron is *MUCH* easier to remember than system* A crontab can just be copied: # ssh root@othersys carontab -l | crontab - So, concluding, *if* OpenSUSE decides to move the main cron functionality to system*, I'd for one would love to see crond be available as a separate package -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.25 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/