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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Shepherd timers
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:35:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r19e7yd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87plur20cc.fsf@lease-up.com> (Felix Lechner's message of "Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:47:15 -0700")

Hi,

Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> skribis:

> On Wed, Apr 10 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> Could you share this service or at least the (calendar-event …) bit?
>
> It was my error.  The iota in
>
>     (calendar-event #:minutes '(iota 12 3 5))

Oh, great that you found out.  We should add checks to diagnose such
issues earlier.

>> Feedback & suggestions welcome!
>
> As a feature request, it would be nice to run timers as users other than
> root.

Good news: that’s already possible with the #:user argument of
‘command’.  :-)

> To encourage adoption of these timers among Guix user, I'll also share
> some of my timers:
>
>     Btrbk Snapshot [2]
>     Mdadm Resync service [3]
>     Guix Garbage Collector service [4]
>     Debbugs Config Sync service [5]
>     Debbugs Bug Data Sync service [6]
>     Borg Backup service [7]

Nice, thanks for sharing!

BTW, until 1.0 is released, the interface may still change.  Just so you
know!

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-19 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-24 21:20 Shepherd timers Ludovic Courtès
2024-03-25  9:14 ` raingloom
2024-03-28 22:22   ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-03-25 22:47 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-03-28 22:32   ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-02 14:23     ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-04-10 14:45       ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-14 19:47         ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-04-19 14:35           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-04-21 21:28             ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-05-01 21:58               ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-03  1:08 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-04-10 14:44   ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-03-31  3:15 Adam Faiz
2024-03-31  4:07 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-03-31  4:09 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.

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