Place the .timer
and .service
file in the /etc/systemd/system/
folder.
To use, let's assume I want to restart nginx every night. Then I'd do:
systemctl enable --now restart_nightly@nginx.timer
And that's it!
To verify you can type
systemctl list-timers
And it should report something like this:
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Thu 2021-03-25 05:00:00 CET 19h left n/a n/a restart_nightly@nginx.timer restart_nightly@nginx.service