• SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Cron already exists and is established as the solution in this space. It’s also used as the model for a lot of other timer services outside the Linux kernel.

      • MadhuGururajan@programming.dev
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        2 days ago

        cron is quite inadequate for condition based scheduling. Instead of million obscure ways to achieve this inside the command that cron executes, systemd timers give us a standard ONE way to do things.

        I feel like systemd timers follow unix philosophy better than cron at this day and age.