Re: Don't auto-start a service in Shepherd

[Carlo Zancanaro]

On Fri, Feb 23 2018, Rutger Helling wrote:
> Is there a way to prevent auto-starting a service in Shepherd? I 
> find that if I use "herd disable service" it still automatically 
> starts the service on a reboot/reconfigure.

I've just had a look at gnu/services/shepherd.scm, and it looks 
like system services can set `auto-start?` to #f when creating 
their shepherd-service, but not many expose this. I think openssh 
is the only service to expose it to the system configuration. You 
could try patching the service you want to use to expose the 
option to not automatically start it. Which service are you trying 
to disable?

There's a discussion to be had about whether shepherd should 
remember disabled services across a reboot/reconfigure. I don't 
think it should, because the running services should be considered 
a part of the system specification.

Carlo

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