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Linux Administration Cookbook
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Linux Administration Cookbook

by Adam K. Dean
December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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systemd timers are great; they also work very well, primarily because they're inherently tied to the init and unit system that they're managing the time triggers for.

In a perfect world, I'd love to see all of the cron entries featured in CentOS and Debian completely removed within their next release. The truth of the matter is cron will probably be around for a long time, and systems such as FreeBSD will use it long after the heat-death of the universe.

When we list timers, we're checking what systemd is aware of in terms of units it has to trigger.

When we're sifting through cron logs and subdirectories, we're banging our heads against a metaphorical desk in a vain effort to find that vague one-liner that's constantly touching ...

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