[Nix-dev] syncthing questions

[Sergey Mironov]

OK, I have solved my syncthing-related problems. It turns out that I
misused service.syncthing.dataDir config option. I thought it is
pre-defined data directory to syncronize, but it is configuration-only
directory in reality!

Regards,
Sergey


2015-09-21 22:28 GMT+03:00 Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com>:
> 2015-09-21 14:39 GMT+03:00 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com>:
>> Hi Sergey,
>>
>> Have you setup syncthing using the config.services.syncthing.enable = true
>> in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix ?
>> The service is creating /var/lib/syncthing by default. This is a better
>> place to put the files, home folders should be private.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> z
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 at 12:19 Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, List! I have two questions regarding Syncthing synchronization
>>> service. They may be not strongly related to Nix but I'd like to ask
>>> here before going to the upstream's forum.
>>>
>>> 1) I've upgraded NixOS installations on both desktop and server
>>> workstations recently. After the upgrade I noticed that syncthing IDs
>>> were changed, so I had to re-setup the connection using Web-GUI. Is it
>>> possible to preserve the IDs ? Or should we think about making this
>>> type of configuration static by providing NixOS wrappers for
>>> 'device'/'folders' options? (I am not sure if it is possible or not)
>>>
>>> 2) I keep my synced data in the /home/syncthing folder and I want it
>>> to be of 'syncthing:users' user/group with 770 permissions. Older
>>> NixOS setup seems to handle it well, but the new one seems to reset
>>> the permissions to 'syncthing:root' 700 every hour. Could it be a
>>> systemd new behavior or it's the syncthing who does this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sergey
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>
>
> Zimbatm, I would have faced another kind of problems with disabled
> syncthing :) Yes, I set syncthing.enable to true. Here is my config
>
> { config, pkgs, ... } :
> {
>   services.syncthing.enable = true;
>   services.syncthing.dataDir = "/home/syncthing";
>
>   users.extraUsers = {
>
>     syncthing = {
>       group = "users";
>       home = "/home/syncthing";
>       useDefaultShell = true;
>     };
>
>   };
> }
>
> I use /home as a storage for two reasons: 1) I run syncthing as a
> separate user, I think its not bad to put it in its own home. 2) /home
> is mounted on separate hard drive partition, and this partition is
> large. / (root) lives in a limited amount of space, so I don't want to
> garbage it with user data.
>
> Regards,
> Sergey