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Which is it Timer Units or cron for system jobs?

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      Reporter RHNID: gereint1958
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      Issue description  RH134 Section 4.1 begins: "Starting from RHEL10, the systemd daemon and service manager replaces the traditional cron daemon for most of the scheduling system tasks, via systemd timer units."     But in section 4.5 we continue to teach using /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.daily, weekly, and monthly.  No mention is made of unit files.  No mention is made of when one should choose to still use cron.  These seem contradictory.  We need to know in what circumstances should cron still be the method for system tasks.

       

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              Gereint1958 Jeff Henderson (Inactive)
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