Re: Starting user services at boot

[ng0]

On 17-02-13 10:30:10, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Leo!
> 
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > Does anyone have advice about how to start an unprivileged user's
> > services when the system boots?
> >
> > On other systems, I could at least invoke them in /etc/rc.local, but I'm
> > not sure how to do it on GuixSD.
> 
> Currently I run shepherd as myself, which reads from
> ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm.  It gets started from my ~/.xsession.
> 
> Admittedly this is a bit of a hack.  It wouldn’t be hard to define
> per-user Shepherd instances as global Shepherd services in GuixSD, if
> you see what I mean.
> 
> Another option would be to add support for this directly in the
> Shepherd, which has pros and cons.

What are the pros and cons from your point of view, could you explain this?
 
> HTH!
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

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