On 11/03/2014 12:48 PM, Yuri D'Elia wrote: >> e.g.: >> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-cron/pkg-cron.git/tree/debian/postinst >> >> Having crontab translate on the fly user crontabs into ~/.config/systemd/user >> service & timers (systemd --user) would avoid all these security problems. >> >> This need a refactor of the generator to turn it into a module that >> can be called from crontab. >> >> crontab -l & -e would just parse back the "Description=[cron] " records > > FIY, systemd does not currently save timer stamps when run under --user: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767086q > > I would recommend waiting for this to be fixed before moving jobs to > ~/.config/systemd/user. > > After this is fixed, then yes, it would actually be much better.
Humm, although moving the jobs to the systemd --user instance would require the user to: 1: have lingering enabled (we could check for this in crontab and emit a warning maybe?) 2: login at least once(!) to start the user session. #2 is a deal-breaker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
