feat(wpcarro/blog): Create short post about scheduled reboots
Slowly building the habit of blogging more (especially about nix). Change-Id: I13006a6555d746ab55b4b282ea83bc732573a58e Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/5149 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com> Autosubmit: wpcarro <wpcarro@gmail.com>
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| ## Show me the codes | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Regularly rebooting machines can be a useful, hygienic practice, but quite | ||||
| frankly I cannot be relied on to remember to regularly reboot my machine. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Let's free-up some wetware-RAM by automating this with Nix. The following | ||||
| addition to your `configuration.nix` will schedule daily reboots at `03:00`: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ```nix | ||||
| systemd.timers.auto-reboot = { | ||||
|   wantedBy = [ "timers.target" ]; | ||||
|   timerConfig = { | ||||
|     OnCalendar = "*-*-* 03:00:00"; | ||||
|     Unit = "reboot.target"; | ||||
|   }; | ||||
| }; | ||||
| ``` | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| If you want to fiddle with the date format, `systemd-analyze` is your friend: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ```shell | ||||
| λ systemd-analyze calendar '*-*-* 03:00:00' | ||||
| Normalized form: *-*-* 03:00:00 | ||||
|     Next elapse: Tue 2022-02-01 03:00:00 PST | ||||
|        (in UTC): Tue 2022-02-01 11:00:00 UTC | ||||
|        From now: 12h left | ||||
| ``` | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| After calling `nixos-rebuild switch`, you can verify that `systemd` started the | ||||
| timer with: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ```shell | ||||
| λ systemctl list-timers auto-reboot | ||||
| #  output omitted because I'm writing this from a different machine | ||||
| ``` | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ## That's all, folks! | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| I wanted to keep this post short-and-sweet, to build the habit of posting more | ||||
| regularly. Hopefully someone out there found this useful. | ||||
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