script: add a systemd job to kill old apt processes

[Pavan-Gunda]

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[rarescosma]

Bro I think the LLM got drunk here.

Surely ps on Ubuntu supports the etimes column (notice the s at the end) which gives you process age in seconds, so we don't need all this awk slop.

[Pavan-Gunda]

I'll switch it to using etimes.

[Pavan-Gunda]

It was mostly me that followed a stackoverflow thread which used etime and then took it to chatgpt to convert it into seconds, so its easier to do the kill command.

[rarescosma]

We use templates for the systemd service unit, and timer unit, but drop the script content inline. Any reason not to have this in a separate file as well?

[Pavan-Gunda]

I can try moving it to a separate file.

[Zash]

• What's running apt ?
• Where is it running? (i.e. cron or systemd-timer or something else?)