2014-05-11 20:09 GMT+04:00 Dave Reisner <[email protected]>: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 07:53:55PM +0400, Alexander Bashmakov wrote: >> Issue was rised in this thread: >> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2014-May/036162.html >> >> Disclaimer: >> I almost have no expereince in C. >> So this patch can contain some silly mistakes. But it 'works for me'. >> Please consider it as RFC. >> >> -8<------- >> Cron-like timers are useful for maintenance tasks >> and already used in some distros by default. >> But midnight is not best time for this. >> Just add a new option allowing user to specify >> activation time (and date) for such timers globally. > > "daily" is just syntactic sugar for "*-*-* 00:00:00". If you don't want > to run at midnight, modify the normalized form to run at the time you > want. >
It's ok for one timer, but not for the set of them. In general I'm want to schedule all maintenance tasks to 5 a.m. or lunch break and forget about them. This applies both for distro provided timers an my own. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
