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progforlyfeyesterday at 3:55 PM1 replyview on HN

This is a very good intro to systemd timers -- I think you convinced me to finally start using them. Love the "list-timers" thing as well. With cron, it never seemed easy to me to get a picture of all the cron jobs running on a box. I'd need to check crontab for all users, as well as /etc/cron.d/, as well as the daily/hourly/monthly directories.

And in fact I do have a use-case for needing to run something ~5 minutes after the system boots and then every ~12 hours onward from there. It's great that systemd timers has me covered!


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tylerjlyesterday at 11:23 PM

Thanks for the kind words! Especially given how ubiquitous systemd is now, skilling up on the toolbox with commands like `systemd-analyze` and `systemctl list-timers` feels super valuable.