[clug] systemctl - timer keeps cancelling, I think

[Bob Edwards]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 03:02:48PM +1000, jm via linux wrote:
> A couple of random thought. What does "journalctl -u imapsync-emails", or
> whatever the timer equivalent, is say? Can you show us the unit file? It
> sound like it may be set to only fire once. I've not used systemd timers,
> but am having my own little fight with systemd at the moment. (only know
> what I just read at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd/Timers )
> 
> Jeff.

Fighting with systemd? Surely not!

(it sure is hard for us old-timers who have cut our teeth for decades on
the old sysinit system, to have to learn a whole new set of ropes for, not
only init, but also cron, ntp, dns etc. etc. - soon you won't be able to
even run the C compiler without systemd having its own way of doing it...
and emacs will be replaced with "systemctl file-edit hello.c" with its
own bizarre set of key-bindings (excuse the mixed-metaphor)).

cheers,
Bob Edwards (first post using my personal e-mail address).

> 
> On 7/9/22 13:55, Tony Lewis via linux wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm pretty green with systemctl, but muddle my way through.  I'm using
> > it to manage my backups.  For one part, it's just not working.
> > 
> > I have a service that uses imapsync to backup emails, and then calls
> > borg to push the files into my backup repository.  The timer currently
> > shows "n/a" for both NEXT and LEFT, and the timer never fires:
> > 
> > email at host:~$ systemctl --user --all list-timers
> > NEXT LEFT LAST                         PASSED              UNIT
> >                  ACTIVATES
> > n/a  n/a  Sun 2022-05-08 14:45:52 AEST 4 months 0 days ago
> > imapsync-emails.timer imapsync-emails.service
> > 
> > If I manually start the service, it work, and the interesting bit is
> > that for a while, the timer shows that it is intending to fire:
> > 
> > email at host:~$ systemctl --user start imapsync-emails
> > email at host:~$ systemctl --user --all list-timers
> > NEXT                         LEFT          LAST
> >                         PASSED              UNIT
> >                  ACTIVATES
> > Thu 2022-09-08 15:21:33 AEST 1 day 1h left Sun 2022-05-08 14:45:52 AEST
> > 4 months 0 days ago imapsync-emails.timer imapsync-emails.service
> > 
> > But after a while (not correlated with when the imapsync job finishes),
> > it will revert back to "n/a" and not fire.
> > 
> > I've tried disabling and re-enabling the timer and the service, and it
> > doesn't appear to help.  The backup job appears to be exiting
> > successfully:
> > 
> > Sep 06 09:19:16 host systemd[133305]: imapsync-emails.service: Succeeded.
> > 
> > Any clues of what I can do?
> > 
> > Tony
> > 
> 
> 
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