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Discussion on: Schedule jobs with systemd timers, a cron alternative

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Ryan Tiffany

One thing to note is you may want to add the absolute path to the curl command. I got some errors when first testing this out on an Ubuntu box. I needed to set ExecStart to ExecStart=/usr/bin/curl for the service to run properly.

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Jonathan Bowman • Edited

Thank you for catching this! I agree with you, and have edited the article accordingly.