Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] maintenance: optionally use systemd timers on Linux

Hi,

On Fri, 21 May 2021, Derrick Stolee wrote:

On 5/21/2021 5:59 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

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On 21/05/21 05.13, Lénaïc Huard wrote:

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The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
through cron. On Linux systems managed by systemd, systemd provides an
alternative to schedule recurring tasks: systemd timers.

The main motivations to implement systemd timers in addition to cron
are:
* cron is optional and Linux systems running systemd might not have it
   installed.
* The execution of `crontab -l` can tell us if cron is installed but not
   if the daemon is actually running.
* With systemd, each service is run in its own cgroup and its logs are
   tagged by the service inside journald. With cron, all scheduled tasks
   are running in the cron daemon cgroup and all the logs of the
   user-scheduled tasks are pretended to belong to the system cron
   service.
   Concretely, a user that doesn’t have access to the system logs won’t
   have access to the log of its own tasks scheduled by cron whereas he
   will have access to the log of its own tasks scheduled by systemd
   timer.

For gender neutrality, we can use he/she instead.

Singular "they" is better. Fully accurate and less awkward.

I agree. If the singular they was good enough for Shakespeare, it is good
enough for anyone. See for yourself:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002748.html

Ciao,
Dscho