GNU bug report logs - #62163
Suppress logging shepherd evaluation in mcron.log

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Bruno Victal <mirai <at> makinata.eu>

Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 62163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bruno Victal <mirai <at> makinata.eu>
Subject: Re: bug#62163: Suppress logging shepherd evaluation in mcron.log
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:25:49 +0200

Hi,

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

> Bruno Victal <mirai <at> makinata.eu> writes:
>
>> Upon mcron job completion, /var/log/mcron.log is spammed with:
>> “shepherd: Evaluating user expression (and (defined? (quote transient?)) (map (# ?) ?))”
>>
>> These shepherd lines should be suppressible.
>>
>>
>> /var/log/mcron.log snippet:
>>
>> 2023-03-13 16:52:00 243 my-heartbeat-job job: running...
>> 2023-03-13 16:52:00 243 my-heartbeat-job job: Healthcheck: OK
>> 2023-03-13 16:52:00 243 my-heartbeat-job job: shepherd: Evaluating user expression (and (defined? (quote transient?)) (map (# ?) ?)).
>> 2023-03-13 16:52:00 243 my-heartbeat-job job: completed in 0.087s
>>
>
> I think this was already fixed in Shepherd on its master branch.  Ludo,
> could you please confirm?

Nope. :-)  What is ‘my-heartbeat-job’ doing?

The “Evaluating…” message occurs when using the ‘eval’ action of the
‘root’ service, as in “herd eval root '(+ 2 2)'”.

Ludo’.
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