On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> wrote: > Jaroslav Reznik writes: > >> Announcing various systemd features in one announcement, see bellow: >> >> = Features/SystemdCalendarTimers = >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdCalendarTimers >> >> Feature owner(s): Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering dot net> >> >> systemd has supported timer units for activating services based on time >> since >> its inception. However, it only could schedule services based on monotonic >> time events (i.e. "every 5 minutes"). With this feature in place systemd >> also >> supports calendar time events (i.e. "every monday morning 6:00 am", or "at >> midnight on every 1st, 2nd, 3rd of each month if that's saturday or >> sunday"). > > > So, systemd wants to reinvent cron? > > Based on systemd's prior track record of various parts breaking randomly > (namely the PrivateTmp fiasco), not really looking forward to this.
cron is not going anywhere i.e you can still use cron. btw. from the feature page "It doesn't affect anybody who doesn't use this. " -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
