Intro I thought I'd share some useful scripts for systemd that replace a cron daemon, and that I use on many of my Gentoo machines. Since moving away from openrc, I had to relearn a bit, especially the daily cron jobs that I was so used to. But I will trade crontab -e for journalctl functionality any day-- so useful. Anyways, I no longer have any crons installed. What to do? I have 1 Gentoo headless file server that needs to run all of these services, 1 desktop (the "bulldozer") and a couple laptops that need to run a subset of these services. 1. Eix-sync Service and Timer I have the excellent eix program installed, and use the wrapper eix-sync for portage and overlay syncing and eix database updating in one shot. Naturally, I want to run this daily for all my machines, and I have my server as a local portage mirror (just a matter of changing the make.conf SYNC setting on the clients: SYNC="rsync://jwilly/gentoo-portage"). Thus, the service need