• SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      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.