{ config, pkgs, ... }: with pkgs.lib; let cfg = config.services.fcron; queuelen = if cfg.queuelen == "" then "" else "-q ${toString cfg.queuelen}"; systemCronJobs = '' SHELL=${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash PATH=${config.system.path}/bin:${config.system.path}/sbin MAILTO="${config.services.cron.mailto}" NIX_CONF_DIR=/etc/nix ${pkgs.lib.concatStrings (map (job: job + "\n") config.services.cron.systemCronJobs)} ''; allowdeny = target: users: { source = pkgs.writeText "fcron.${target}" (concatStringsSep "\n" users); target = "fcron.${target}"; mode = "600"; # fcron has some security issues.. So I guess this is most safe }; in { ###### interface options = { services.fcron = { enable = mkOption { default = false; description = "Whether to enable the `fcron' daemon."; }; allow = mkOption { default = [ "all" ]; description = '' Users allowed to use fcrontab and fcrondyn (one name per line, "all" for everyone). ''; }; deny = mkOption { default = []; description = "Users forbidden from using fcron."; }; maxSerialJobs = mkOption { default = 1; description = "Maximum number of serial jobs which can run simultaneously."; }; queuelen = mkOption { default = ""; description = "Number of jobs the serial queue and the lavg queue can contain - empty to net set this number (-q)"; }; systab = mkOption { default = ""; description = ''The "system" crontab contents.''; }; }; }; ###### implementation config = mkIf cfg.enable { services.fcron.systab = systemCronJobs; environment.etc = [ (allowdeny "allow" (cfg.allow)) (allowdeny "deny" cfg.deny) # see man 5 fcron.conf { source = pkgs.writeText "fcon.conf" '' fcrontabs = /var/spool/fcron pidfile = /var/run/fcron.pid fifofile = /var/run/fcron.fifo fcronallow = /etc/fcron.allow fcrondeny = /etc/fcron.deny shell = /bin/sh sendmail = /var/setuid-wrappers/sendmail editor = /run/current-system/sw/bin/vi ''; target = "fcron.conf"; mode = "0600"; # max allowed is 644 } ]; environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.fcron ]; security.setuidPrograms = [ "fcrontab" ]; jobs.fcron = { description = "fcron daemon"; startOn = "startup"; after = [ "local-fs.target" ]; environment = { PATH = "/run/current-system/sw/bin"; }; preStart = '' ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/mkdir -m 0700 -p /var/spool/fcron # load system crontab file ${pkgs.fcron}/bin/fcrontab -u systab ${pkgs.writeText "systab" cfg.systab} ''; daemonType = "fork"; exec = "${pkgs.fcron}/sbin/fcron -m ${toString cfg.maxSerialJobs} ${queuelen}"; }; }; }