[systemd-devel] Feature request: schedule jobs for last day of month

Andrey Borzenkov arvidjaar at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 21:47:26 PST 2013


В Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:04:55 -0800
David Strauss <david at davidstrauss.net> пишет:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Dave <dave at flex.com.au> wrote:
> >  Hi.  I'm not on the maillist, but I recently read that systemd was planning
> > to introduce an integrated job scheduler, if it isn't done already.
> >
> >  If so, then it would be very handy to introduce a way to run scheduled jobs
> > at the end of the month.  It's something of a pet peeve I have with cron,
> > that it can't natively do this.
> >
> >  I can work around it, but it's not pretty, and I'd much prefer a native
> > solution.  I thought I'd throw the suggestion here as a good idea for the
> > new scheduler.
> 
> That's a funny schedule for anything system-related.

That's pretty common for running backups, performing accounting tasks
etc.

>                                                      Why not just have
> the job run every day and exit immediately when it's not the last day
> of the month?
> 
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