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Re: Defining custom services in /etc/config.scm
From: |
Carlo Zancanaro |
Subject: |
Re: Defining custom services in /etc/config.scm |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +1100 |
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mu4e 1.4.14; emacs 27.1 |
Hi Sergiu!
On Mon, Jan 25 2021, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
I understand that I should somehow construct a <service> (?)
from my <shepherd-service>, but I don't see a way to do it.
Unfortunately Guix overloads the word "service", where we have (a)
services that consist of structured modifications to an operating
system, and (b) shepherd services that define a process that will
run on the resulting system. Shepherd services cannot be used
directly, but need to be added to an instance of the
shepherd-root-service-type service. The easiest way to do this is
to use simple-service (documented in "(guix) Service Reference" in
the manual).
Putting it together, this should return a service object which
runs your redshift shepherd service:
(simple-service 'redshift-service 'shepherd-root-service-type
(list redshift-service))
I hope that helps!
Carlo