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When you need to run a one-off task in the background or schedule a maintenance script for later, the usual tools that come to mind are nohup, screen, at, or cron.

But if your servers already use systemd, you also have access to a much more powerful tool: systemd-run.

It creates transient units — temporary services and timers that do not require permanent .service or .timer files.

With transient units, you can get proper process supervision, journald logging, cgroup resource limits, sandboxing, scheduling, and status tracking without adding permanent systemd configuration.

Let’s look at a few practical use cases.