Run Reflector Through Systemd

I installed reflector as i've said in this post. Now I want to run reflector regularly so that whenever I do a pacman update I can be assured that the mirrors are also updated. Setting this weekly is I think reasonable enough. I want to use systemd to do this.

/etc/systemd/system/reflector.service

[Unit]

Description=Pacman mirrorlist update

[Service]

Type=oneshot

ExecStart=/usr/bin/reflector --verbose --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Save the file. Start the service.

To set this service every week.

/etc/systemd/system/reflector.timer

[Unit]

Description=Run reflector weekly

[Timer]

OnCalendar=weekly

RandomizedDelaySec=12h

Persistent=true

[Install]

WantedBy=timers.target

Save the file. Start the timer.

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