[Bit-dev] Re: Why DBus?

how it [DBus] fits into the context of crontab.

crontab and DBus are indirectly related in BiT by the use cases that BiT covers, eg. shutting down the computer after having taken a snapshot (probably scheduled via cron[tab]) To find out all functions that DBus provides and that are called in BiT see the source code, eg: Query battery status: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/master/common/tools.py#L479 Shut down computer: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/master/common/tools.py#L1522 Compare: Read and write crontab file do not directly use DBus. https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/master/common/tools.py#L1214