Hi Ludo, This bug was closed as notabug, but I still see it as an issue worth fixing. Just using the (gnu services herd) API to query live services ends up producing such a messages; I think from the 'resolve-transients' procedure there that calls to eval-there unconditionally.
Perhaps the shepherd output could be redirected to /dev/null at that specific place to avoid noisy output such as: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 2023-05-18 23:15:00 22491 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: running... 2023-05-18 23:15:00 22491 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: shepherd: Evaluating user expression (and (defined? (quote transient?)) (map (# ?) ?)). 2023-05-18 23:15:00 22491 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: completed in 0.029s 2023-05-18 23:20:00 22804 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: running... 2023-05-18 23:20:00 22804 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: shepherd: Evaluating user expression (and (defined? (quote transient?)) (map (# ?) ?)). 2023-05-18 23:20:00 22804 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: completed in 0.039s 2023-05-18 23:25:00 23849 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: running... 2023-05-18 23:25:00 23849 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: shepherd: Evaluating user expression (and (defined? (quote transient?)) (map (# ?) ?)). 2023-05-18 23:25:00 23849 /gnu/store/zmb73m7qgqagpb4vjhdd9jgkwp716p0m-wireguard-wg0-monitoring: completed in 0.028s --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The above output is triggered by this code [0]. [0] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63402#13-lineno225 -- Thanks, Maxim
