Systemd timer units: two things cron still cant do (opens in new tab)

Every time I see a cron tab I wonder why nobody reached for systemd timers. Cron works fine until it doesnt, and by then youre already in a hole. Here are the two things that always bite us. 1. Your cron PATH is a coin flip Cron runs everything with a stripped down environment. PATH is usually /usr/bin:/bin. So when you write a cron job that calls vault or python3 or anything not in that short list, it silently fails or runs the wrong binary. Systemd services inherit the full environment from...