Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-30 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 09/09/2020 12:15, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 09:44:44 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said: > >> so has anyone experienced cron jobs sporadically (kind of randomly) not >> running when they're meant to? > No, never (and I've been using Linux since the early 90s, and UNIX before > that)

Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hello Hamish, > > > Now I just have to work out why updatedb.conf(5)'s > > > PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS doesn't seem to have an effect. :-) > > > > Because it's buggy and doesn't work. It's been known about for many > > years and not fixed or documented. :-( > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_

Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-13 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 13/09/2020 12:08, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote: >> Now I just have to work out why updatedb.conf(5)'s PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS >> doesn't seem to have an effect. :-) > Because it's buggy and doesn't work. It's been known about for many > years and not fixed or documented. :-( > > http

Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I wrote: > Now I just have to work out why updatedb.conf(5)'s PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS > doesn't seem to have an effect. :-) Because it's buggy and doesn't work. It's been known about for many years and not fixed or documented. :-( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723279 https

Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-09 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 09/09/2020 12:15, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 09:44:44 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said: > >> so has anyone experienced cron jobs sporadically (kind of randomly) not >> running when they're meant to? > No, never (and I've been using Linux since the early 90s, and UNIX before > that)

Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-09 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 09:44:44 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said: > so has anyone experienced cron jobs sporadically (kind of randomly) not > running when they're meant to? No, never (and I've been using Linux since the early 90s, and UNIX before that). Set up your cron jobs so that the command is:

Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-09 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 09/09/2020 09:38, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Patrick, > >> Is it intentional that OnCalender= has a different spelling of >> Calend[a,e]r than OnCalendar=20:12? > Nope! Thanks, that fixes it. > > $ systemctl cat updatedb.timer > # /usr/lib/systemd/system/updatedb.timer > [Unit] >

Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, > Is it intentional that OnCalender= has a different spelling of > Calend[a,e]r than OnCalendar=20:12? Nope! Thanks, that fixes it. $ systemctl cat updatedb.timer # /usr/lib/systemd/system/updatedb.timer [Unit] Description=Daily locate database update [Timer]

Re: [Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-09 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Is it intentional that OnCalender= has a different spelling of Calend[a,e]r than OnCalendar=20:12? Patrick -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-10-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailt

[Dorset] How to Cancel Existing systemd.timer(5) OnCalendar Values.

2020-09-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Anyone here know why my override of the default OnCalendar for updatedb.timer isn't replacing the default 00:00 with 20:12, but instead adding to it? It's as if the ‘OnCalender=’ which is meant to clear any existing values is having no effect. $ systemctl cat updatedb.timer # /usr/li