Re: Shepherd and the --silent option

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net> skribis:

> The other day I was able to hack something together which from limited
> testing seems to make those options work (with a corresponding patch
> to add --silent to the home-shepherd launch script). I have attached
> my surprisingly simple diff (which applies on top of devel branch).
>
> It was not clear to me weather boolean variables should be suffixed
> wirth "?". When it got removed in [1] a long time ago it was
> unsuffixed.
>
> I have tested the patched devel shepherd and a similar diff on top of
> 0.10.5 and seems to work as I expect it: The output to stdout is no
> longer there but still available in the shepherd log file.

Oh, not sure what the deal was with that 2013 commit.  :-)

Anyway your patch looks great to me; finally pushed as
6ffe404ffe794b06fddd304a963a47b62444edfa in ‘devel’.

> Slightly related I noticed an issue with the devel shepherd invoked
> via guix home not daemonizing blocking my login manager.

Weird; I haven’t tried this yet, I’ll give it a try.

Thanks,
Ludo’.