Have been playing pre-release Wardogs lately. They're resetting all progress soon because the game is still changing too much. Apparently they plan to reset every few months after release. Very sad. That would mean that a casual player like me is stuck with early gear forever.
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Just discovered systemd path units. They activate service units, similar to what timer units would do, but their trigger is a change in the filesystem. You can use them to execute some worker code as soon as a job appears in a folder. No need to have cronjobs every minute to check if there's something to do.