Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] maintenance: optionally use systemd timers on Linux

> On 21/05/21 05.13, Lénaïc Huard wrote:
>> The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
>> through cron. On Linux systems managed by systemd, systemd provides an
>> alternative to schedule recurring tasks: systemd timers.
>>
>> The main motivations to implement systemd timers in addition to cron
>> are:
>> * cron is optional and Linux systems running systemd might not have it
>>    installed.
>> * The execution of `crontab -l` can tell us if cron is installed but not
>>    if the daemon is actually running.
>> * With systemd, each service is run in its own cgroup and its logs are
>>    tagged by the service inside journald. With cron, all scheduled tasks
>>    are running in the cron daemon cgroup and all the logs of the
>>    user-scheduled tasks are pretended to belong to the system cron
>>    service.
>>    Concretely, a user that doesn’t have access to the system logs won’t
>>    have access to the log of its own tasks scheduled by cron whereas he
>>    will have access to the log of its own tasks scheduled by systemd
>>    timer.
> 
> For gender neutrality, we can use he/she instead.