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- Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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<refentry id="systemd.timer">
<refentryinfo>
<title>systemd.timer</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
then stay around forever.</para>
</refsect1>
- <refsect1>
- <title>Implicit Dependencies</title>
-
- <para>The following dependencies are implicitly added:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Timer units automatically gain a <varname>Before=</varname>
- dependency on the service they are supposed to activate.</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </refsect1>
-
<refsect1>
<title>Automatic Dependencies</title>
<refsect2>
<title>Implicit Dependencies</title>
- <para>There are no implicit dependencies for timer units.</para>
+ <para>The following dependencies are implicitly added:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Timer units automatically gain a <varname>Before=</varname>
+ dependency on the service they are supposed to activate.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
distributed amount of time between 0 and the specified time
value. Defaults to 0, indicating that no randomized delay
shall be applied. Each timer unit will determine this delay
- randomly each time it is started, and the delay will simply be
+ randomly before each iteration, and the delay will simply be
added on top of the next determined elapsing time. This is
useful to stretch dispatching of similarly configured timer
events over a certain amount time, to avoid that they all fire