Re: Guix shepherd user services

[Tanguy Le Carrour]

Hi Tobias, hi Guix!


Le 05/04, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice a écrit :
> My apologies for not replying sooner.  I fail at managing the scarce free
> time I have these days.

I'm not much better, so no need to apologise! ;-)


> Tanguy Le Carrour wrote:
> No, you're right, I'd simply never checked this before.  Stopping emacs
> gives me… Zombie emacs.  And mu.

Just to make sure, I tried and checked with the "system wide" shepherd.
Everything seem to be OK, no Zombies lurking in the corner. But… I
noticed that `wpa-supplicant` was running and, as I don't need it on my
desktop, I stopped it:

    ~# herd stop wpa-supplicant
    Service ntpd has been stopped.
    Service avahi-daemon has been stopped.
    Service networking has been stopped.
    Service wpa-supplicant has been stopped.

?! I was not expecting `networking` to stop too.

    ~# herd status
    …
    Stopped:
     - avahi-daemon
     - networking
     - ntpd
     - term-auto
     - user-homes
     - wpa-supplicant

And event if `network` is listed as "stopped", I still have access
to the network!? This is not clear to me!? Does `networking` mean
something different?!

And if I start `network` again, `wpa-supplicant` comes up with it, but
not `avahi-daemon` and `ntpd`.

    # herd start networking
    Service wpa-supplicant has been started.
    Service networking has been started.

Not quite the behaviour I was expecting! But maybe I didn't understand
correctly how things were supposed to work! :-(

I'll dig a bit in the doc, but any input is welcomed!


-- 
Tanguy