On Fri, 2022-11-18 at 16:06 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> But then the user would not be able to configure it anymore,
> so I do not see the upside.
I just discovered an alternative that preserves the current location
and the conffile status of the cron.daily script. The script stays the
same,
On Fri, 2022-11-18 at 16:06 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> But then the user would not be able to configure it anymore,
> so I do not see the upside.
They would be able to configure it via the config file as usual.
/etc/popularity-contest.conf
They could also patch it automatically via an
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 09:37:27AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-11-16 at 19:00 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest is a conffile, I cannot make it into
> > a systemd service.
>
> The usual way to handle both cron and systemd timers is to move most of
Hi,
That's nucely written out, better than I could.
An extra bit of policy(*) I attempt to infuse with/for systemd-cron is this
one: the name of the crontab (here "apt-compat")
should match the name of the main timer (here "apt-daily", so not the case
yet) so that systemd-cron will ignore this
On Wed, 2022-11-16 at 19:00 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest is a conffile, I cannot make it into
> a systemd service.
The usual way to handle both cron and systemd timers is to move most of
the logic in the cron script into a script in /usr then make the cron
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 04:00:30PM -0800, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.67
>
> This is regards to the popularity-contest cron job. I'm looking into
> running systems without anacron/cron installed - instead using systemd
> timers.
Hello Bryan,
Why not use
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.67
This is regards to the popularity-contest cron job. I'm looking into
running systems without anacron/cron installed - instead using systemd
timers.
My suggestion would be to remove the what to do functionality from the
cron job/timing bits to another
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