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| author | Nazar Vinnichuk <nazar.vinnichuk@tutanota.com> | 2020-09-11 13:38:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2020-09-11 20:17:42 +0200 |
| commit | fb2afc5f30c76965c3a2b5a0f3cc6170b59a6fa4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f92025c09fc0e9a77caf3ca9ad0756ceef2c46d | |
| parent | b2006ddc8fb9b3b8a1640635bd29b85126d7c514 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-fb2afc5f30c76965c3a2b5a0f3cc6170b59a6fa4.tar.gz | |
man: document the random delay of persistent timers
The manual states that a persistent timer triggers it's service
immediately on activation to catch up with missed invocations, but since
PR #11608 it is no longer the case if RandomizedDelaySec= is set to a
non-zero value.
(cherry picked from commit 5501da15ba34284e50c10ccd6b3ffa8838bb431b)
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.timer.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.timer.xml b/man/systemd.timer.xml index 5822402712..32ddb1c6e4 100644 --- a/man/systemd.timer.xml +++ b/man/systemd.timer.xml @@ -297,9 +297,10 @@ <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, the time when the service unit was last triggered is stored on disk. When the timer is activated, the service unit is triggered immediately if it - would have been triggered at least once during the time when the timer was inactive. This is useful - to catch up on missed runs of the service when the system was powered down. Note that this setting - only has an effect on timers configured with <varname>OnCalendar=</varname>. Defaults to + would have been triggered at least once during the time when the timer was inactive. Such triggering + is nonetheless subject to the delay imposed by <varname>RandomizedDelaySec=</varname>. + This is useful to catch up on missed runs of the service when the system was powered down. Note that + this setting only has an effect on timers configured with <varname>OnCalendar=</varname>. Defaults to <varname>false</varname>.</para> <para>Use <command>systemctl clean --what=state …</command> on the timer unit to remove the timestamp |