Post #1812637
2026-04-03 11:50 UTC
For adding a quick thing to make something happen at a specific time, I can add a cron job in a couple of minutes. To add a timer takes creating a couple of files with syntax that took me a while to look up last time I needed it, and running a command. Then debugging. Sure, the timer has benefits, but cron jobs are still *simpler*.
On the bright side, there's actually a "crontab -t" command that apparently can be used to generate timer files from a crontab line, which I hadn't known of before today.
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@Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-03 12:59
I can add the two files required to run a timer in systemd in a couple minutes, but writing the complex incantation to cron for having it do something that is the default in systemd is pure pain and takes me 3 hours of googling