On 2020-02-24, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Adam Funk  writes:
>> On 2020-02-24, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> Adam Funk  writes:
>>>> On 2020-02-20, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>>> You stopped reading too early:
>>>> ...
>>>>> Start with ‘man systemd.timer’ for the syntax & meaning of the timer
>>>>> file, and look for ‘Overriding vendor settings’ in ‘man
systemd.unit’
>>>>> for how to modify its behavior.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks --- I think I'm getting closer, but not successful yet.  I
>>>> found a symlink from
>>>> /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/anacron.timer to
>>>> /lib/systemd/system/anacron.timer, deleted it, copied the linked file
>>>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> I have no idea why you would do that.
>>
>> Some stuff in the documentation led to believe that customized files
>> should go straight in etc --- should I restore the symlink and edit
>> the file in /lib/systemd/...?
>
> The symlinks needs to still be there but point to the new file.

So restore the symlinnk from
/etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/anacron.timer to
/lib/systemd/system/anacron.timer & edit the latter (regular) file?

(It just seems weird to me to edit something in /lib rather than in
/etc!)

Thanks.


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