Configuring a Nightly Job¶

Configuring The Schedule¶

We will first need to configure a timer which will configure the schedule that BattleNetPrefill will run on. In this example, we will setup a schedule that will run nightly at 4am local time. This schedule was chosen

You should create a new file named /etc/systemd/system/battlenetprefill.timer, and save the following configuration into that file.

[Unit]
Description=BattleNetPrefill run daily
Requires=battlenetprefill.service

[Timer]
# Runs every day at 4am (local time)
OnCalendar=*-*-* 4:00:00

# Set to true so we can store when the timer last triggered on disk.
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

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Configuring The Job¶

Next, well setup the job that will be triggered nightly by the timer that we previously setup. Create a new file /etc/systemd/system/battlenetprefill.service, and save the following configuration into the file.

[Unit]
Description=BattleNetPrefill
After=remote-fs.target
Wants=remote-fs.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
# Sets the job to the lowest priority
Nice=19
User=# Replace with your username
WorkingDirectory=# Set this to the directory where BattleNetPrefill is installed.  E.g /home/tim/Prefills
ExecStart=# Set this to match your working directory from the line above.  E.g. /home/tim/Prefills/BattleNetPrefill prefill --no-ansi

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Once these two files are setup, you can enable the scheduled job with:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start battlenetprefill.timer
sudo systemctl enable battlenetprefill

If everything was configured correctly, you should see similar output from running sudo systemctl status battlenetprefill.timer

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Checking Service Logs¶

It is possible to check on the status of the service using sudo systemctl status battlenetprefill, which will display both the service's status as well as its most recent logs.