# Monitoring libguides-notifier jobs

Quick checks
- Next and last run times (look for libguides-notifier.timer):
  systemctl --user list-timers --all
- Timer and service health:
  systemctl --user status libguides-notifier.timer libguides-notifier.service
- Recent run output (stdout/stderr from main.py):
  journalctl --user -u libguides-notifier.service -n 200 --no-pager
- Follow logs live:
  journalctl --user -u libguides-notifier.service -f

Manual operations
- Run immediately (without waiting for the timer):
  systemctl --user start libguides-notifier.service
- Enable or disable the timer at login:
  systemctl --user enable --now libguides-notifier.timer
  systemctl --user disable --now libguides-notifier.timer
- Reload user units after editing *.service/*.timer files:
  systemctl --user daemon-reload
- Inspect the effective units systemd is using:
  systemctl --user cat libguides-notifier.service
  systemctl --user cat libguides-notifier.timer

Notes
- The timer uses Persistent=true, so if a scheduled time was missed while the laptop was off, one catch-up run will happen when the machine is back on.
- All print() output from main.py appears in journalctl for libguides-notifier.service.
- Time zone for scheduling is set in the timer unit: Timezone=America/New_York.