GNU bug report logs - #36510
confusing mcron logging

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>

Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 13:37:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 36510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
Cc: 36510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36510: confusing mcron logging
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:37:57 +0200

Hi,

Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net> skribis:

> Suggestions:
> - mcron should log the timestamp and a job id of every job when it starts
> - mcron should log the timestamp and status and job id of every job when it finishes
> - job output should be prefixed by some job id

+1!  +3 even.  :-)

Something that can help debugging to some extent (but is definitely no
substitute for what you suggest above!) is ‘sudo herd schedule mcron’.
I use that to manually run jobs that appear not to work as expected.

Ludo’.
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