Why Systemd Timers Outshine Cron Jobs
For decades, cron has been the trusty workhorse for scheduling tasks on Linux systems. Need to run a backup script daily? cron was your go-to. But as modern systems evolve and demand…
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Upgrading Raspbian 8 (Jessie) to Raspbian 9 (Stretch)
I decided to upgrade my oldest Raspberry Pi to the latest Raspbian. Since I was two releases behind, I decided to do it step-by-step. Today I updated from 8 – 9. I…
Raspberry Pi – rsyslog fixes on Raspbian 8 (Jessie)
One of my Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2) is running quite old versio of Rasbian – although fully updated and patched. Today while checking the syslog on my raspberry…
Apt Pinning in Raspbian
Quite sometime back I wrote a blog entry on apt-pinning to mix multiple repositories in debian and prioritize them. Recently, I felt the need to do the same on my raspberry pi.…
Ansible Quirks – 3
I was running some playbook today and realise that the command line arguments of ansible-playbook do not behaves expected. My playbook has the following defined – remote_user: root When I issued the…