[GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Sun Dec 13 13:22:34 EST 2020


On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:57:46AM -0800, Colin Arndt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Fedora Linux here, and I am trying to set up a systemd timer to pull 
> price quotes once a week using gnucash-cli. Previously I was using cron 
> to accomplish this, but would like to migrate to a systemd timer because 
> this is on a laptop and I never know when it will be on or off. Systemd 
> timers can handle missed execution times gracefully by simply running the 
> command the next time the system is up. 
> I've set it up to execute this command:
> /usr/bin/flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes 
> get /path/to/Books-sql.gnucash 
> 
Use anacron, put the thing you want to run in /etc/cron.weekly.

On many systems it will actually use systemd to implement things but
anacron is the generic way of doing what you want to do.

-- 
Chris Green


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