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Re: Starting user services at boot
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ng0 |
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Re: Starting user services at boot |
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Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:37:44 +0000 |
On 17-02-13 10:30:10, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Leo!
>
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > Does anyone have advice about how to start an unprivileged user's
> > services when the system boots?
> >
> > On other systems, I could at least invoke them in /etc/rc.local, but I'm
> > not sure how to do it on GuixSD.
>
> Currently I run shepherd as myself, which reads from
> ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm. It gets started from my ~/.xsession.
>
> Admittedly this is a bit of a hack. It wouldn’t be hard to define
> per-user Shepherd instances as global Shepherd services in GuixSD, if
> you see what I mean.
>
> Another option would be to add support for this directly in the
> Shepherd, which has pros and cons.
What are the pros and cons from your point of view, could you explain this?
> HTH!
>
> Ludo’.
>
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