Hello,
I've found a bug in shepherd 1.0.1. When a service has a log file in an
'inaccessible' location, e.g. a home service logging to /var/log, it
causes 'herd status $service' to hang, as well as the overall 'herd
service' command. I found it with this service[1] which silently failed
to log, I guess, until I updated shepherd and found this bug.
[1]:
(service home-shepherd-service-type
(home-shepherd-configuration
(services
(list
(shepherd-service
(provision '(emacs))
(start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
(list #$(file-append emacs-pgtk-xwidgets "/bin/emacs")
"--fg-daemon")
#:log-file "/var/log/emacs.log"))
(stop #~(make-kill-destructor)))))))
