Re: Shepherd timers

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.