Cronjob vs systemd timers - how to create a systemd timer

IntroI’ve been using cronjobs for a long time. More recently I’ve been testing systemd-timers as they allow dependency management, so I don’t have to check (in the script I’m running) to see if certain services are up/running before my scripts can do their work. In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to create a simple systemd timer service which runs a script on a schedule A quick comparison with CronI’m all for learning to use new tools.

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