[systemd-devel] Stop systemd timer upon success script and restart the next day

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:21 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a systemd timer that starts a service, and the service executes
> a script that downloads data files once a day. Once the data files are
> retrieved I don't need the timer for the remainder of the day.
> However, I need the time again the next day.
>
> Here are the two docs I found on scheduling a timer, but I was not
> able to parse out the info I needed.
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html
> and https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html
> .
>
> How do I specify a timer that starts 6:00 AM every morning, fires once
> an hour, and then stops for the day upon success of the download?
>

I think you only do "every hour 6:00 to XX:00" through systemd.timer and
the rest through script logic – simply make the script exit if it finds
today's data already having been downloaded.

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas
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