Dear Edouard,
Thanks a lot. That helped.
But - in my opinion - it also shows that there is something
missing, if you can start a service via the system configuration
but cannot get information about it other than by hand.
Cheers
Alex
On Mon, Dec 09 2024, 11:50:45, Edouard Klein <e...@rdklein.fr> wrote:
Hi,
From reading the source in gnu/services/admin.scm, it appears to be
every monday:
(define %default-package-database-update-schedule
;; Default mcron schedule for the periodic 'guix locate --update' job: once
;; every Monday.
"10 23 * * 1")
It's an mcron job. I don't know the canonical way to inspect it, but
what I did was:
sudo herd status mcron
Status of mcron:
It is running since 08:05:26 AM (4 hours ago).
Running value is 578.
It is enabled.
Provides (mcron).
Requires (user-processes).
Will be respawned.
Then I inspect the command:
cat /proc/578/cmdline
/gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile--no-auto-compile/gnu/store/c9hmd29cqhl48s1xavlxyv7ay47zhyhz-mcron-1.2.3/bin/mcron--log--log-format~1@*~a
~a:
~a~%/gnu/store/hcz4n1fslal58kn3x6v08zzn9i7i1fxi-mcron-job/gnu/store/y2rzyajc9g8cfvc3a917y985r0c39pm1-mcron-job/gnu/store/9j61jj8qhi5wszlbdfk67v88s4d7mb12-mcron-job
One of these mcron-job files in the store should be the one running
"updatedb", I think you can extract the command line and run it
manually.
For example one of my job is:
cat /gnu/store/hcz4n1fslal58kn3x6v08zzn9i7i1fxi-mcron-job
(job "30 12 01,08,15,22 * *"
"/gnu/store/zwhm4q7l9zwcl4vmbzybn2m5clqws3sg-delete-old-logs")
I could then run
/gnu/store/zwhm4q7l9zwcl4vmbzybn2m5clqws3sg-delete-old-logs manually.
Somebody more versed in Guix than me may provide a better porcelain to
inspect all of that.
Cheers,
Edouard.
Alexander Asteroth <alexander.aster...@h-brs.de> writes:
Dear all,
so far I had not installed `(service file-database-service-type)` in my system
config.
Since I would like to have `locate` running I played a bit with `updatedb` but
`locate` is very slow this way.
That's why I not included `(service file-database-service-type)` into my system,
run `system reconfigure` and rebooted.
My question now is: how can I find out if the service is actually running `herd
status` doesn't show anything about this service.
It's supposed to run `updatedb` as a cron job but how can I find this `crontab`
entry?
What I would actually like to do is find out if the configuration is as I expect
it and run this service now once now.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers
Alex
