[systemd-devel] systemd user instance

David Strauss david at davidstrauss.net
Mon May 6 19:02:06 PDT 2013


I don't recommend spawning user instances of systemd just for their
timer units to run. Each instance comes with a few MB of overhead, and
you'll have no fun trying to spawn sessions in a way isolated from
(but somehow integrated with) the PAM session initialization process.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Kai Krakow <hurikhan77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg at gmail.com> schrieb:
>
>>> But now I want to (and need to) give some users cron-like abilities. I
>>> discovered that systemd supports user instances - perfect!
>>
>> Then install cronie...
>
> That's the obvious solution but a little bit counter-productive with respect
> to my question...
>
> Anyway, one has to take that route if everything else fails.
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>
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