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Till now I organized my non-crontab cron-jobs by cron.d in Debian-LAMP environment.

My cron-jobs use me to upgrade CMSs containing my web applications.

Here's how I do it from the beginning:

#!/bin/bash cat <<-EOF > /etc/cron.daily/cron_daily #!/bin/bash for dir in ${drt}/*/; do if pushd "$dir"; then rws composer update drupal/* webflo/drupal-core-require-dev --with-dependencies drush updatedb drush cache:rebuild rws popd fi done 2> $HOME/myErrors EOF cat <<-EOF > /etc/cron.weekly/cron_weekly #!/bin/bash find "$drt" -path "*/cache/*" -type f -delete certbot renew -q EOF chmod +x /etc/cron{.daily,.weekly}

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I consider to start using Arch instead Debian.

I checked the Arch cron documentation about using cron.d but it's not clear to me if cron.d is a native part of Arch and if not, how to install it.

Is cron.d a part of Arch and if not, how to install it?

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The /etc/cron.daily will be available after installing cronie package, it is not pre-installed:

pacman -S cronie

The default system scheduled jobs in arch linux is managed through systemd.timer. To list the timer units :

systemctl list-timers
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  • Hi GAD3R. Would you recommend to go with the default systemd.timer for best stability? Commented Jan 19, 2019 at 19:53
  • @JohnDoea To use systemd.timer you need to create a service and the timer , some information on Arch-linux docs : As a cron replacement. Commented Jan 19, 2019 at 22:10

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