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Re: blog post about shepher user services
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Adriano Peluso |
Subject: |
Re: blog post about shepher user services |
Date: |
Sat, 22 May 2021 16:42:24 +0200 |
Il giorno sab, 22/05/2021 alle 15.49 +0200, Leo Prikler ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> the blog post you've linked
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2017/running-system-services-in-containers/
> seems to neither contain mentions of XDG_CONFIG_DIR, nor mcron.
>
> Did you mean
> https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/gnu-shepherd-user-services/
> instead?
yes, I pasted the wrong one, sorry
>
> FWIW, $XDG_CONFIG_DIR should be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, I myself always mix
> those up as well.
Good to know
> As far as mcron integration is concerned, it doesn't
> look as though this has been done yet and I think work remains to be
> done to have mcron running "as a part of shepherd" rather than as its
> own daemon. You can right now already run regular cron-jobs through
> mcron just how people did before systemd was a thing. You just need
> to
> make sure you launch mcron as a user service if you want to go with
> this particular configuration style, otherwise mcron as a system
> service ought to suffice as well.
>
> Regards,
> Leo
>
Ok, thanks