On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote:
Hi Guix,
I'm looking for help or tips on debugging an mcron job.
I haven't yet solved this, but have some done some more (potentially
interesting) troubleshooting.
The problem only seems to present itself, when mcron is run from Shepherd.
For testing purposes, I changed the schedule to run every minute. This is
how mcron is being called from Shepherd:
# ps -ef|grep mcron
root 32463 1 0 15:11 ? 00:00:00
/gnu/store/mamwayq00mqs85kgs6ibww7xw6dy776s-mcron-1.1.1/bin/mcron
/gnu/store/0h36hing715c57k9xz5f6fgm77krq4p7-mcron-job
If I then run the same thing from a root shell:
# /gnu/store/mamwayq00mqs85kgs6ibww7xw6dy776s-mcron-1.1.1/bin/mcron
/gnu/store/0h36hing715c57k9xz5f6fgm77krq4p7-mcron-job
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;; or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /gnu/store/0h36hing715c57k9xz5f6fgm77krq4p7-mcron-job
;;; compiled
/root/.cache/guile/ccache/2.2-LE-8-3.A/gnu/store/0h36hing715c57k9xz5f6fgm77krq4p7-mcron-job.go
it works. What could be causing this?
The contents of the job file are:
(job "* * * * *"
"/gnu/store/61692zjpkhy3jqv4a7jk1k8a14k6yn8k-planisphere-report-0-0.1b606af/bin/planisphere-report")
Best,
Jack
