The debusine-worker command

The debusine-worker command starts a Worker. It is provided by the debusine-worker package.

debusine-worker has few options, described in --help:

$ debusine-worker --help
usage: debusine-worker [-h] [--log-level {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}]

Start Debusine worker process: ...

debusine-worker is normally run automatically through a systemd unit.

debusine-worker expects sbin dirs in its PATH, which is normally the case when run from systemd.

See also:

• Set up a Debusine worker

• Configure and manage a worker

Command output

debusine-worker is meant to be run as a daemon and normally doesn’t directly produce any output. Logs are written to stderr and captured by the systemd journal.

Return values

Return values of the debusine-worker command:

Return value	Meaning
0	Success
1	Error: unhandled exception. Please report the error
2	Error: wrong arguments and options
3	Error: any other type of error such as invalid configuration file, etc.

Hooks

It is possible to run a command after the worker completes a task, by adding it to /etc/debusine/worker/hooks/after-work-request.d. No information about the task is available to the hook.