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Systemd timers or classic cron? (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev
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Just learned of timers the other day, but I'm a cron guy, anybody out there using timers? Anything I'm missing out on?

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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The entirety of cron documentation is contained in the twenty lines of comments in the new config file created by cron -e

The only thing you need to know is cron -e command. There's no learning curve, it's more like - you are a cron expert in five minutes after learning that such a tool exists.