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IMBJR

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From: INDCMPLX

Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 88

Starting a custom timer after network dependancy met

Or at least that's what I'd like, so I can have 'pacman -Sy' called hourly.

No matter the combination of After/Requires in the .timer config for network-target or dhcpcd, I cannot get the timer to trigger and instead will see:

Job timers.target/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start

in the journal (an entry with very few results when looked for via Google). For example, 1 permutation I tried was to follow the example of the ntp daemon, which has:

After=network.target nss-lookup.target

but without results.

Seems the only way to get a timer to function is to to use OnBootSec and wait a few minutes.