nixpkgs/upstart-jobs/cron.nix
Eelco Dolstra 0d50031a0a * Periodically update the locate database from cron when
config.services.locate.enable is set.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=10448
2008-02-01 12:35:51 +00:00

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{pkgs, config}:
let
# !!! This should be defined somewhere else.
locatedb = "/var/cache/locatedb";
updatedbCmd =
"${config.services.locate.period} root " +
"mkdir -m 0755 -p $(dirname ${locatedb}) && " +
"nice -n 19 ${pkgs.utillinux}/bin/ionice -c 3 " +
"updatedb --localuser=nobody --output=${locatedb} > /var/log/updatedb 2>&1";
# Put all the system cronjobs together.
systemCronJobs =
config.services.cron.systemCronJobs ++
pkgs.lib.optional config.services.locate.enable updatedbCmd;
systemCronJobsFile = pkgs.writeText "system-crontab" ''
SHELL=${pkgs.bash}/bin/sh
PATH=${pkgs.coreutils}/bin:${pkgs.findutils}/bin:${pkgs.gnused}/bin:${pkgs.su}/bin
MAILTO=
${pkgs.lib.concatStrings (map (job: job + "\n") systemCronJobs)}
'';
in
{
name = "cron";
extraEtc = [
# The system-wide crontab.
{ source = systemCronJobsFile;
target = "crontab";
mode = "0600"; # Cron requires this.
}
];
job = ''
description "Cron daemon"
start on startup
stop on shutdown
respawn ${pkgs.cron}/sbin/cron -n
'';
}