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Subject: Re: mcron job with cd to directory?
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 22:04:14 +0200
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Howdy ng0,

ng0 <ng0@pragmatique.xyz> skribis:

> Does someone know how you could re-create this:
>
> (crontab -l of root)
> # Regnerate stagit indexes every hour:
> 0 * * * * (cd /var/www/git && echo `pwd` && /root/git_pragmatique_xyz.sh)
>
> in mcron?
>
> I have some cronjobs where the initial
> current-working-dir must be a specific directory.
>
> I think I am missing (lambda) in what I have written below,

Indeed you are!  :-)

> but the mcron documentation just
>
> (define %stagit-job1
>   #~(job '(next-hour '(4))
>            (and
>             (chdir "/srv/www/git/pragmatique")
>             (system* "sh" "/root/git_pragmatique.xyz.sh"))))

Something like:

  #~(job '(next-hour '(4))
          (lambda ()
            (chdir =E2=80=A6)
            (system* =E2=80=A6)))

See <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Scheduled-Job-Execu=
tion.html>.

Ludo=E2=80=99.