{ 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 ${optionalString (config.services.cron.mailto != null) '' MAILTO="${config.services.cron.mailto}" ''} NIX_CONF_DIR=/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 { type = types.bool; default = true; description = "Whether to enable the Vixie cron daemon."; }; mailto = mkOption { type = types.nullOr types.str; default = null; description = "Email address to which job output will be mailed."; }; systemCronJobs = mkOption { type = types.listOf types.str; default = []; example = literalExample '' [ "* * * * * 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 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"; path = [ cronNixosPkg ]; 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 = "cron -n"; }; }; }