[systemd-devel] systemd user instance

[Kai Krakow]

Well, actually the timers are a nice benefit only. We want to control user-
initiated background-services for a web application server with this and 
cron hasn't been our best friend for this in the past.

David Strauss <david at davidstrauss.net> schrieb:

> 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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