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Controlling the time of anacron's cron.daily in raspbian buster?

The .service files aren't config files. It's just that some packagers plunk hard-coded settings into the .service file when they should make them configurable. e.g. redhat/centos hardcode "PrivateTmp=true" into the .service file for apache httpd.

So instead of

[Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mydaemon -s 03:00:00 PrivateTmp=true

It should be

[Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/mydaemon ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mydaemon -s $STARTTIME PrivateTmp=$USEPRIVATETMP

Then all tweakable settings go in /etc/sysconfig/mydaemon instead of the .service file. (or /etc/default or whatever)

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Joe Beanfish
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Well, I see what you mean, but if it has variables in it that I need to change to get the service to run at a different time or with different options, then it looks, walks, & quacks ike a config file to me!

;-)

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Adam Funk

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