How to automatically restart mcron (or register new jobs) on deploy?

How to automatically restart mcron (or register new jobs) on deploy?

[Tomas Volf]

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Hello,

I created a new service-type which (among other things) extends
mcron-service-type to register few jobs.  It seems to work, with one exception.
When I deploy the configuration, the mcron jobs are not registered.  They are
not being executed and they are not visible in the output of `herd schedule
mcron'.

They do show up when I either reboot or manually execute `herd restart mcron'.

Is there a way to make this happen automatically?  Having to remember "right,
the jobs were changed, I need to log onto the server and restart mcron" is bit
annoying and I am sure I will forget sooner or later.

Thank you and have a nice weekend,
Tomas Volf

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Re: How to automatically restart mcron (or register new jobs) on deploy?

[Felix Lechner via]

Hi Tomas,

On Fri, Jul 05 2024, Tomas Volf wrote:

> Is there a way to make this happen automatically?

Do the new timers from the Shepherd development branch do that?

Kind regards
Felix