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@bachp bachp commented Mar 25, 2020

Motivation for this change

Improve the out of the box experience for boinc.

The two improvements are:

  1. Log to journal instead of a dedicated log file. This is less confusing in my opinion as running journalctl -u boinc now shows the logs.
  2. Create a boinc group to allow users easier access to the rpc secret located in the data dir.
    This allows easy access by running boincmgr -d /var/lib/boinc for all users in the boinc group.
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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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bachp added 2 commits March 25, 2020 13:25
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nixos/boinc: log to journal instead of log file
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nixos/boinc: create boinc group
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This allows users that are members of the boinc group
to interact with the boinc service by running:

boincmgr -d /var/lib/boinc
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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/fight-covid-19-with-folding-home-and-nixos/6202/42

@ofborg ofborg bot added 6.topic: nixos Issues or PRs affecting NixOS modules, or package usability issues specific to NixOS 8.has: module (update) This PR changes an existing module in `nixos/` 10.rebuild-darwin: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Darwin 10.rebuild-linux: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Linux labels Mar 25, 2020
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bachp commented Mar 31, 2020

@kierdavis please take a look

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LGTM

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bachp commented Apr 14, 2020

@matthewbauer please take a look, can this be merged?

@matthewbauer matthewbauer merged commit 57e20c5 into NixOS:master Apr 14, 2020
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