Day 10 - Scheduling tasks - Linux Upskill Challenge
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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      probably because at appears to just be for scheduling single tasks, not recurring ones - but thanks for mentioning it, since I wasn’t aware of it before.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        7 months ago

        Ah, my bad. I saw the systemd timers thing, and not knowing much about systemd I figured that was an alternative closer to at than cron. Looks like it’s more of another unneeded replacement. I use at all the time and only really edit my cron a few times a year. I’d think that I’d learn to read entire articles before commenting.

  • fnmain@programming.dev
    3·
    7 months ago

    I think, rough estimation, my server which is running Arch would last ~1 month with auto updating on

  • Billegh@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    I honestly wouldn’t recommend this for any server, and probably not for a workstation. This is useful for learning but could easily be a nightmare when troubleshooting an issue on a remote machine.

    It’s always a great idea to do updates when you can give them your attention. Even if it’s you triggering them via ansible or other automation.