[Nix-dev] Basic commands not found in shell script when run from systemd

[Domen Kožar]

Yes :)

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:00 PM, 4levels <4levels at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Domen,
>
> Thank you for your quick reply, much appreciated!
> Do I understand it correctly, if I put this line in the systemd
> configuration
>
> path = [ pkgs.procps pkgs.gawk pkgs.nettools pkgs.mysql pkgs.php pkgs.duplicity];
>
> I don't need to write the following inside the script itself?
> script =
>
> ''
>   export PATH="$PATH:${config.services.mysql.package}/bin"
>
>   ...
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Erik
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:47 PM Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
>
>> path = [ pkgs.procps pkgs.gawk pkgs.nettools ];
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:43 PM, 4levels <4levels at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nix Devs,
>>>
>>> I've created a bash script that does a duplicity backup to an s3
>>> instance (but this is trivial).  When I run the script from cli, it works
>>> as expected, but when this script is called from a systemd timer, I do get
>>> all kind of errors about basic binaries not being found when using subshell
>>> commands, like eg
>>>
>>> HOST=$(hostname) # (or HOST=`hostname`)
>>>
>>> The errors are like these:
>>> hostname: command not found
>>> ps: command not found
>>> awk ..
>>> sendmail ..
>>>
>>> Any ideas on what's going on so I can solve this and have this script
>>> running correctly when started by systemd?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
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>>
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