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Re: mcron service and PATH (was: Home service for mbsync?)
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Tanguy LE CARROUR |
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Re: mcron service and PATH (was: Home service for mbsync?) |
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:51:45 +0100 |
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Hi Emmanuel,
Quoting Emmanuel Beffara (2024-02-22 13:37:10)
> De Carlo Zancanaro le 22/02/2024 à 10:27:
> > On Wed, Feb 21 2024, Felix Lechner via wrote:
> > > Does anyone have an 'mbsync' home service, please? Thanks!
> > I just run mbsync as an mcron service. I have a custom script, because I
> > do some weird stuff to update my mu index afterwards, but it shouldn't
> > be hard to figure out how to call mbsync directly.
> >
> > In my home services I have this:
> >
> > (simple-service 'mail-update-script
> > home-mcron-service-type
> > ;; Update email every five minutes.
> > (list #~(job '(next-minute '(0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
> > 50 55))
> > "/home/carlo/.local/bin/fetch-mail")))
> >
> > Obviously this doesn't handle configuring mbsync, which I do outside of
> > my home configuration.
> […]
> I recently noticed an issue with that: it seems that the command in the mcron
> job is called with an incomplete PATH.
Yes, indeed.
The "problem" was discussed, among other places, here:
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2024-01/msg00091.html>.
Long story short: I decided to put (or inject) the full path in all my
config files.
--
Tanguy