From: "Brett Neumeier via supervision" <supervision@list.skarnet.org>
To: Paul Sopka <psopka@sopka.ch>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org,
Laurent Bercot <ska-supervision@skarnet.org>
Subject: Re: Have an external script wait for a oneshot service
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 15:42:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241205154251.57f50904db9b057dd9e5807e@freesa.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7f683c7-b553-4297-91d9-3abe5f5c2c7b@sopka.ch>
On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 22:10:17 +0100
Paul Sopka <psopka@sopka.ch> wrote:
> - B Imagine the following scenario:
>
> A user wants to run a script every day at 12:00 and sets up a
> snooze user-longrun for that,
> which he installs and starts using s6-rc-init and s6-rc
> respectively while logged in,
> but logically does not stop on logout.
Is there a reason that the user would not simply set up a cron job to run the script every day at noon?
I mean, obviously, s6-rc services are way sexier than crontab entries, but cron jobs have been working fine for decades and if you want to run a script on a specific schedule, why not just ... use the tools you have?
--
Brett Neumeier <random@freesa.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-05 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-04 15:28 Paul Sopka
2024-12-04 15:38 ` Charles Cazabon via supervision
2024-12-04 17:12 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-04 21:47 ` Hoël Bézier
2024-12-04 20:00 ` Brett Neumeier via supervision
2024-12-04 20:05 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-04 20:18 ` Brett Neumeier via supervision
2024-12-04 20:59 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-04 21:58 ` Re[2]: " Laurent Bercot
2024-12-05 5:59 ` Tanuj Bagaria
2024-12-05 6:54 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-05 8:05 ` Re[2]: " Laurent Bercot
2024-12-05 13:52 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-05 19:44 ` Re[2]: " Laurent Bercot
2024-12-05 21:10 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-05 21:42 ` Brett Neumeier via supervision [this message]
2024-12-06 5:32 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-05 23:03 ` Re[2]: " Laurent Bercot
2024-12-06 12:41 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-06 15:43 ` Re[2]: " Laurent Bercot
2024-12-06 16:11 ` Hoël Bézier
2024-12-06 17:14 ` Paul Sopka
2024-12-07 23:46 ` Jan Braun
2024-12-05 21:24 ` Jan Braun
2024-12-05 23:15 ` Re[2]: " Laurent Bercot
2024-12-04 20:09 ` Tanuj Bagaria
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