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Tyblog | You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough

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A cron job for every man, woman, and child.

Tyblog | You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough << You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough >> 5 May, 2026 2,139 words 9 minute read time Figure 1: Plato's Cave by Jan Pietersz Saenredam; 24 hour clock licensed under CC3 from Wikimedia ; systemd logo by the systemd project licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 My favorite metonymic technology term is "cron job": even though cron may not literally be the daemon that executes actions on a schedule, we apply the term to anything that walks like a cron and quacks like a cron . As Patrick McKenzie likes to point out, cron jobs are one of the most eminently useful

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