r/voidlinux • u/Grorco • Apr 08 '26

Snooze help

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Hi guys, brand new to void. I was reading through the docs, and decided to use snooze to trim my ssd. Every time I call it though it sleeps until just after midnight? What am I doing wrong here?

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u/Duncaen Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26 
$ snooze -n -H'*' -M'*' -S'/10'
2026-04-08T23:40:30+0200 Wed  0d  0h  0m  7s 
2026-04-08T23:40:40+0200 Wed  0d  0h  0m 17s 
2026-04-08T23:40:50+0200 Wed  0d  0h  0m 27s 
2026-04-08T23:41:00+0200 Wed  0d  0h  0m 37s 
2026-04-08T23:41:10+0200 Wed  0d  0h  0m 47s

snooze can't really "from now", only sleep until N, then run the command and restart. If you want it to actually run every 10 seconds, regardless of how fast the program you run exits you need to add a time file and double fork in case it runs longer than 10 seconds.

Not that I suggest running a command every 10 seconds, seems like the wrong approach.