Re: [GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

2020-12-13 Thread Colin Arndt
Hi John and Will, Thanks for the responses and help troubleshooting! It was super simple to specify this to be run as my user account in the service file. The technique is to add a "User=" line. In case anyone else is interested, here's what worked. Change the path and username to suit. /etc/sys

Re: [GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

2020-12-13 Thread w...@theprescotts.com
Usually jobs that work for some types of logins and fail for others are either due to differences in file access permission or differences in environment variables. Maybe when it runs as root, the $PATH variable is different and it is not finding something. Or some other environment variable is

[GNC] Translators: Updated po files for coming Gnucash 4.3

2020-12-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Dear translators and intersted users, we have just merged the frozen strings for the Gnucash 4.3 release into the po files. Please send us your updated translations until noon 26 December UTC-8. Have fun Frank https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation

Re: [GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

2020-12-13 Thread John Ralls
No, but using flatpak (or any other container system) adds constraints on what you can do because of the sandbox. Surely you can get systemd to run the job as you instead of as root. Regards, John Ralls > On Dec 13, 2020, at 10:28 AM, Colin Arndt wrote: > > Hi John, > > Flatpak access makes

Re: [GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

2020-12-13 Thread Colin Arndt
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

Re: [GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

2020-12-13 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:57:46AM -0800, Colin Arndt 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

Re: [GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

2020-12-13 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 13, 2020, at 9:57 AM, Colin Arndt 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

[GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

2020-12-13 Thread Colin Arndt
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. System

Re: [GNC] Multinational Accounting question...

2020-12-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 13.12.20 um 02:49 schrieb John Ralls: > You'll probably want to enter a rate manually as the spot market rate > retrieved by Finance::Quote is unlikely to be the one you need. The next F::Q release will have a modul for the European Central Bank. Their reference rates are usually accepted a