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[72.10.129.227]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c10sm7587738qtb.20.2021.08.23.20.49.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:49:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Maxim Cournoyer References: <20200408003503.64a357da@scratchpost.org> <874ktu7152.fsf@gnu.org> <20200409203958.GU1518@E5400> <87y2r3yccf.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:48:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y2r3yccf.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?="'s message of "Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:27:44 +0200") Message-ID: <87k0kbtsd0.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-guix@gnu.org List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: 40499-done@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1629777017; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding:resent-to: resent-from:resent-sender:resent-message-id:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=phPLEtJiDIg3aOaSuBeGje+f0IkXGx93RTW0dSK5mbU=; b=iHvVS11fW/jzfOCF0SmjYXN+UonlJrimRzgvNTBWrCVSCyN/O3p21bvJMVWnwbIDCie/7e TLA3cLkxXtV6hR3If3HaAVqM5lEvyKTZdG2brZCMka9klyu1UL5RZTu2I+EJrfy3NZ6INL pMemgZnWFj3yYOOmfffm2fWxrRlTVfFgqsbUcdB3lqeryTc5uVOGYSb40XOUPA5iAZQnn8 b6B85ID6mUoDAuZId4HMbCvmDlgp47SfCOFbZe97/FQuwPY8CmaIe8Z9thvdD70Y+yV//a 5aFMdRaPktW/SqOyy7jN7JsYTCMoEvkWFUgHtnVDB4gSQGmUJgy6xx8etWFe6w== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1629777017; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=bnr6tQc+NQ1lVG5IIpQySyvVcrdeN++C2DP2tVKgpreZMfvRNmAD3oR4CY6DujQDn9pnN0 Ui1ldSxGLQT83wwZefmUzV7kUYEwcvKIcyWoR7V+H5HTos1EChlnRpg+B9nBzCvA6jyh+9 YWQ6cT7KEeXJ4G4te7Ubo5NGu72i8xP+8U1SRxtdHwY7lo+MSTiRGUsGz8u1Nmn+ssp69j 9prEHbIqoH7D97etnlCkA9dvPk9qy65z5etmIJrduZGiHkT3hovqnMZbGede7yVNPxOr63 eHDRzdYYrFmj9PQGeLCetGVrKvhsSv+BbSPP+2nPPtWVwieyxydn1sSYXo/5iQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=BjAiOaiK; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -0.32 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=BjAiOaiK; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 63A001EEC0 X-Spam-Score: -0.32 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: ekYDVKsCAe4t Hello, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hi, > > Efraim Flashner skribis: > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >>> Hi Danny, >>>=20 >>> Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >>>=20 >>> > $ crontab -e >>> > >>> > In unknown file: >>> > 0 (copy-file "/tmp/crontab.10313" "/var/cron/tabs/dannym") >>> > >>> > ERROR: In procedure copy-file: >>> > In procedure copy-file: No such file or directory >>> > >>> > /var/cron doesn't exit either. Maybe we should automatically create = /var/cron ? >>>=20 >>> Yes, this should be done in an activation snippet. >>>=20 >> >> Should this be part of a crontab service > > That=E2=80=99s what I had in mind. > >> or does the mere existence of the files allow cron tasks to start >> working? > > Good question. Actually I think the crontab compatibility bit is rather > separate in mcron: AIUI, you have to run =E2=80=98crond=E2=80=99, not =E2= =80=98mcron=E2=80=99, if you > want that to get that functionality (info "(mcron) Invoking cron or > crond"). > > So perhaps all this is moot unless/until we have an mcron-crond service. I think so. And since Dale Mellor, the original author of GNU Mcron advises to keep the crond service per-user rather than for the system [0], if we want a crond service it seems we should turn ourselves to Guix Home. Closing. [0] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40950#5