I am at last implementing systemd timers. The service I created can have its status queried by a normal user. I thought I must have made a mistake. But when I do: systemctl status cron
I get: ● cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cron.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-08-19 18:12:04 CEST; 6 days ago Docs: man:cron(8) Main PID: 790 (cron) Tasks: 1 (limit: 17837) Memory: 91.0M CPU: 14min 3.110s CGroup: /system.slice/cron.service └─790 /usr/sbin/cron -f Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions. Is this the expected behaviour? If not: what could be wrong with my system? This is on Debian 11. -- Cecil Westerhof