Hello,
Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> I tried it out and can confirm that it still works. Nice!
Thanks for testing!
> Just curious, how would I specify the user to run the job under now?
Using Mathieu’s mcron branch (the ‘mcron2’ package, which is the default
here), this is done via #:user, so:
#~(job '(next-hour '(1))
do-something
#:user "danny")
I’ll add an example of this in the manual.
> How do I read the guix texinfo manual (using info) when the manual is not
> installed (i.e. read directly from the git checkout)?
Using the standalone Info reader, you can run:
info -f ./doc/guix.info
and using Emacs:
C-u C-h i ./doc/guix.info RET
> (Also, I wonder whether it would make any sense to be able to specify a list
> of packages that have to be installed because of the scheduled job(s).
> Otherwise it could for example be that updatedb isn't available, right?)
I kept this example simple, but if you want to make sure it finds
‘updatedb’, you can write it as:
#~(job …
(string-append #$findutils "/bin/updatedb --foo"))
And if you want to avoid issues related to shell quoting:
#~(job …
(lambda ()
(execl (string-append #$findutils "/bin/updatedb")
"updatedb" "--foo")))
HTH!
Ludo’.
