From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: cron-service Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:27:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20160430192744.1fbe081f@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awYgi-0001th-GL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:28:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awYgW-0001jr-U2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:28:11 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:54493) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awYgW-0001ef-NN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:28:04 -0400 Received: from localhost (77.119.131.64.wireless.dyn.drei.com [77.119.131.64]) by dd1012.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 104611CA0D12 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:27:49 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, I've seen the mcron package but I don't understand how it gets launched. Should there be a cron-service ? How about the configuration which cron jobs to run? mcron can do both the traditional format and S-Expression format, so it would be possible to directly have the system cronjobs inside /etc/config.scm as an S-Expression. Does that work?