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Re: The ๐ Shepherd gets a service collection
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: The ๐ Shepherd gets a service collection |
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Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:43:26 +0200 |
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 05:11:34PM +0100, Ludovic Courtรจs wrote:
> Hello Guix!
>
> I pushed some changes yesterday that confirm that the Shepherd paves the
> way for init system innovation, synergistic cross-domain fertilization,
> and delimited continuations:
>
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/log/?id=31d21fa083872d500c016b6b3b2587d25510702d
>
> 31d21fa * Add REPL service.
> cd6f3fb * comm: Add 'open-server-socket'.
> c64804f * Add resource monitoring service.
>
> These new services are built into shepherd, allowing users to control it
> and to fiddle with it. The REPL is functional but of course a bit
> bumpy: youโd better know what youโre doing.
>
> I imagine we could develop more convenient services like this, such as a
> basic command scheduler similar to the โatโ command, and a syslogd
> implementation. The latter could be nice for a couple of reasons:
> logging would happen from the start and till the end (an improvement
> over the external syslogd process), and it could let us provide a nicer
> user interface to view logs (taking inspiration from that of
> โjournalctlโ).
>
> Thoughts? Ideas?
I always imagined an 'at' command being part of mcron. Does this mean we
should look forward to shepherdd-mcron?
> PS: It just occurred to me that we might as well rename the new
> (shepherd service โฆ) hierarchy to (shepherd sheep โฆ) or even
> (shepherd ๐ โฆ).
How does shepherd handle emojis for system symbols?
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