Hi John, Flatpak access makes sense as the culprit. The .gnucash file is in my home folder. The command completes when I run it as my user. Run as root, it fails. Perhaps I'm trying to do something in a way it's not designed to be used? Thanks again, Colin
On Dec 13 2020, at 10:10 am, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > On Dec 13, 2020, at 9:57 AM, Colin Arndt <colinfar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > On Fedora Linux here, and I am trying to set up a systemd timer to pull > > price quotes once a week using gnucash-cli. Previously I was using cron to > > accomplish this, but would like to migrate to a systemd timer because this > > is on a laptop and I never know when it will be on or off. Systemd timers > > can handle missed execution times gracefully by simply running the command > > the next time the system is up. > > I've set it up to execute this command: > > /usr/bin/flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get > > /path/to/Books-sql.gnucash > > > > Strangely, this produces a file not found error even though I've verified > > the path is correct. > > * 09:50:20 WARN <gnc.backend.dbi> [GncDbiBackend<Type>::session_begin()] > > Sqlite3 file Books-sql.gnucash not found > > * 09:50:20 ERROR <gnc.gui> [scm_cleanup_and_exit_with_failure()] Session > > Error: Sqlite3 file Books-sql.gnucash not found > > This isn't an issue with how I've set up the systemd timer or service, > > because when I run it as root from the command line, I get the same result. > > Thanks for any insight! > > Is /path/to somewhere accessible by the flatpak's sandbox? > Regards, > John Ralls > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
