On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 08:26:53PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > Another pattern I have seen used by a couple of packages is to ship a > .timer and a .service file to perform the regular task, and a > corresponding cron job that invokes the same command when the system is > not booted with systemd. For example, see /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat > and apt-daily.{timer,service}.
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