nixpkgs/modules/services/scheduling/cron.nix
Lluís Batlle i Rossell 79ded36abf Making cron/fcron set their setuid wrappers. And made fcron use the nixos systemCrontabJobs by
default.
It does not look very modular, and the manual may not look very good, but I think it
works better than before. And setting cron.enable = false and fcron.enable = true works fine.


svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=24199
2010-10-10 11:35:15 +00:00

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{ config, pkgs, ... }:
with pkgs.lib;
let
inherit (config.services) jobsTags;
# Put all the system cronjobs together.
systemCronJobsFile = pkgs.writeText "system-crontab"
''
SHELL=${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash
PATH=${config.system.path}/bin:${config.system.path}/sbin
MAILTO="${config.services.cron.mailto}"
NIX_CONF_DIR=/nix/etc/nix
${pkgs.lib.concatStrings (map (job: job + "\n") config.services.cron.systemCronJobs)}
'';
# Vixie cron requires build-time configuration for the sendmail path.
cronNixosPkg = pkgs.cron.override {
# The mail.nix nixos module, if there is any local mail system enabled,
# should have sendmail in this path.
sendmailPath = "/var/setuid-wrappers/sendmail";
};
in
{
###### interface
options = {
services.cron = {
enable = mkOption {
default = true;
description = "Whether to enable the `vixie cron' daemon.";
};
mailto = mkOption {
default = "";
description = " The job output will be mailed to this email address. ";
};
systemCronJobs = mkOption {
default = [];
example = [
"* * * * * test ls -l / > /tmp/cronout 2>&1"
"* * * * * eelco echo Hello World > /home/eelco/cronout"
];
description = ''
A list of Cron jobs to be appended to the system-wide
crontab. See the manual page for crontab for the expected
format. If you want to get the results mailed you must setuid
sendmail. See <option>security.setuidOwners</option>
If neither /var/cron/cron.deny nor /var/cron/cron.allow exist only root
will is allowed to have its own crontab file. The /var/cron/cron.deny file
is created automatically for you. So every user can use a crontab.
Many nixos modules set systemCronJobs, so if you decide to disable vixie cron
and enable another cron daemon, you may want it to get its system crontab
based on systemCronJobs.
'';
};
};
};
###### implementation
config = mkIf config.services.cron.enable {
environment.etc = singleton
# The system-wide crontab.
{ source = systemCronJobsFile;
target = "crontab";
mode = "0600"; # Cron requires this.
};
security.setuidPrograms = [ "crontab" ];
environment.systemPackages = [ cronNixosPkg ];
jobs.cron =
{ description = "Cron daemon";
startOn = "startup";
# Needed to interpret times in the local timezone.
environment = { TZ = config.time.timeZone; };
preStart =
''
mkdir -m 710 -p /var/cron
# By default, allow all users to create a crontab. This
# is denoted by the existence of an empty cron.deny file.
if ! test -e /var/cron/cron.allow -o -e /var/cron/cron.deny; then
touch /var/cron/cron.deny
fi
'';
exec = "${cronNixosPkg}/sbin/cron -n";
};
};
}