Chapter 7: Understanding systemd Timers

Busy system administrators like to find ways to make their lives easier. One way to do that is to automate as many of their routine tasks as possible by setting them up to automatically run on a set schedule. In this chapter, we'll look at how to do this with systemd timers. The specific topics that we'll look at include the following:

• Comparing systemd timers with cron
• Understanding timer options
• Creating timers

If you're ready, let's get started.