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ttamttam

@rixx it is funny. But honestly I'm not even conflicted about this. If you want to run timers, which is very reasonable for an init system; you need to handle real, human, times and all their messiness. Say you want to automate a holiday email, or manage processing of documents at certain business defined times.

27 October at 22:42 | Wall-to-wall | Open on fosstodon.org
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wink

@ttamttam I love your optimism if you actually trust a random linux box (with systemd or without) to run this timer in 5 years, through (supposedly) 1-2 OS upgrades. @rixx

27 October at 23:02 | Open on chaos.social
ttamttam

@wink @rixx
Honestly since I switched to NixOS (btw)... Yeah.
But same could be said for Ansible or Chef or any kind of declarative infrastructure as code setup. Systemd timers have been rock solid for me. So, like you implied, the issue is not the timer but making sure the config survives. Good configuration hygiene goes a long way in mitigating this.

27 October at 23:08 | Open on fosstodon.org
rixx

@ttamttam @wink likewise, most of my servers have been around for easily five years or more, and while I am far from a professional sysadmin, and I have broken many things, misplacing my systemd files has never been one of them.

27 October at 23:36 | Open on chaos.social
sabik

@wink @ttamttam @rixx
Realistically, you'd be scheduling things like "1st and 15th of each month" or "first Saturday of each month", maybe annually at most; it just winds up that by the time you implement the useful patterns, you also get impractical ones, like "each time Christmas falls on Tuesday"

28 October at 3:12 | Open on rants.au
rixx

@ttamttam I did say that in my other replies! I was just going for funny - but then, I am German, so I probably should just... Not do that

27 October at 23:34 | Open on chaos.social
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