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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I tried to use my first systemd timer, but failed: Either I don’t understand it correctly, or there is a bug in systemd (228 of SLES12 SP5):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(See also <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/779714/320598">
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/779714/320598</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It seems it’s not enough to “enable” the timer, but also “start” it (well, it may seem logical from the systemd point of view, but from a cron user’s point of view enabling should be enough)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Furthermore it seems to be necessary to run the service unit itself, too (assuming it must be enabled also, right?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But the biggest thing is that systemd seems to lose the point-in-time of the last activation, so the timer won’t fire any more (e.g. after package upgrade when everything enabled would be re-enabled, and everything started
would be re-started).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But most of all if the system reboots, the timer also won’t fire any more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So can anybody explain how things should work?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<pre style="vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US">My expectation was that an </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"var(--ff-mono)",serif;color:#0C0D0E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">OnUnitInactiveSec timer would fire immediately if it never ran, and then every day from that.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"var(--ff-mono)",serif;color:#0C0D0E"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ulrich<o:p></o:p></p>
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