>I would love to see something closer to an event triggered service than >forking once and forgetting. You can use shepherd and herd commands (without sudo). For example: $ shepherd [-c config.scm] $ herd status
Then configure your `config.scm` as you like. As a default shepherd will use `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/shepherd/init.scm`, and if the variable is not set then `$HOME/.config/shepherd/init.scm`. >It would be awesome if the Guix System could provide a way to configure these >declaratively, too. That can be done by generating a text-file in store containing the desired config then symbolic linking it to `$HOME.config/shepherd/init.scm`. This all can be done using guix daemon(declaratively). Though I am not sure how you can 'autostart' the service at boot time and declaratively? Cheers amar On February 9, 2019 1:14:28 PM UTC, John Soo <js...@asu.edu> wrote: >Thanks Chris, > >I wasn’t aware of the autostart spec so I took a look. Thanks! After >reading it I’m not sure it provides the retry support (among other >things) that a user service might provide. I would love to see >something closer to an event triggered service than forking once and >forgetting. > >It would be awesome if the Guix System could provide a way to configure >these declaratively, too. I am not saying shepherd would be the >mechanism, necessarily either. I just think people - myself included - >will probably want this feature. > >Thanks again, > >John > >> On Feb 9, 2019, at 12:48 AM, Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >> John Soo <js...@asu.edu> writes: >> >>> Hi Reza, >>> >>> I’m not sure this is possible right now. I recently tried making a >>> service which would need the x display variable and I got stuck >right >>> about when I needed the logged in user. I would love to see it >though. >>> >>> Does anyone else know? >> >> I don't think there's an easy solution that's integrated into the >Guix >> System (formerly known as GuixSD). Instead, the best approach is to >use >> any of "the usual" methods for starting up user processes. For >example, >> you might use the ~/.config/autostart convention: >> >> https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/autostart-spec/ >> >> -- >> Chris -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
