alt Hacker NewsBack in the day, the reason I had 1-minute cron jobs (with flock of course) was because "what if the bespoke daemon gets killed somehow?" We also used screen/tmux a lot, but only for stuff that could afford to wait until somebody poked it (often, because if it repeatedly crashed the cause was likely novel and would need investigation).
Systemd has been a game-changer for small-scale deployments.
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> Systemd has been a game-changer for small-scale deployments.
Why is this? My only memory of systemd was slightly better configurations for sequencing the start of processes that depended on the completion of earlier processes so I'm a bit rusty.
> Systemd has been a game-changer for small-scale deployments.
The deep integration into nixos made me feel the same. You sound like you could enjoy a bit nix too.
Which is kind of ironic, given that systemd basically brings into Linux system services management from other UNIXes, Windows, mainframes and micros, but still gets plenty of hate.