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Slavi Pantaleev e1690722f7 Replace cronjobs with systemd timers

Fixes https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/756

Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/737

I feel like timers are somewhat more complicated and dirty (compared to
cronjobs), but they come with these benefits:

- log output goes to journald
- on newer systemd distros, you can see when the timer fired, when it
will fire, etc.
- we don't need to rely on cron (reducing our dependencies to just
systemd + Docker)

Cronjobs work well, but it's one more dependency that needs to be
installed. We were even asking people to install it manually
(in `docs/prerequisites.md`), which could have gone unnoticed.

Once in a while someone says "my SSL certificates didn't renew"
and it's likely because they forgot to install a cron daemon.

Switching to systemd timers means that installation is simpler
and more unified.

2021-01-14 23:35:50 +02:00

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 [Unit]
 Description=Reloads matrix-nginx-proxy so that new SSL certificates can kick in
 [Service]
 Type=oneshot
 ExecStart={{ matrix_host_command_systemctl }} reload matrix-nginx-proxy.service