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Ubuntu: Running a bash script periodically with a user-level Systemd timer


Categories: Linux

If you have a Bash script that needs to run periodically, you can run it using a crontab entry.  But you can also have it invoked by Systemd using systemd.timer. Furthermore, you can run Systemd services as  user-level services instead of the typical system-level service for even further isolation. Running via Systemd provides more powerful … Ubuntu: Running a bash script periodically with a user-level Systemd timer

Ubuntu: loading a key into ssh-agent at login with a user-level systemd service


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By default, if an SSH key file is dropped into your personal ‘~/.ssh’ directory that matches a set of standard names, then it will automatically be used as an identity when logging into a remote site (id_rsa, id_dsa, id_ecsda, id_ed25519, or identity). For example, this makes it simple to comply with Github’s requirement to use … Ubuntu: loading a key into ssh-agent at login with a user-level systemd service