So today I discovered that there’s a cron job that holds non-reproducible state that died, and now our system is fucked.

The cron job doesn’t live inside any source control. This morning it entered a terminal state, and because it overwrites its state there’s no way to revert it.

I’m currently waiting for the database rollback and have rewritten it in a reproducible/idempotent way.

      • Sherry@programming.dev
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        2 months ago

        that might be a stupid question, but why would you running all services in tmux be a bad idea? a co-worker of mine is doing exactly that right now, which is why I’m asking.

        • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago
          1. They’re all gone when you restart
          2. It doesn’t properly deal with logging
          3. You can’t set up dependencies between services but that doesn’t matter due to point 1

          I recommend using systemd services and/or docker compose instead. systemd services are files that describe which program / script to run and when (like after networking is active or after a certain other service is loaded).

        • swab148@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          It’s not horrible, like it’ll do the job just fine, it’s just probably a better idea to use systemd and like, containers and whatnot, but I couldn’t be arsed to fiddle with all that for Jellyfin, caddy reverse proxy, and two modded Minecraft servers, so shell scripts and tmux won the day. It takes a little extra time to restart everything after an update, and maybe I’ll get the motivation to do things “correctly™” one day, but today is not that day.