Re: blog post about shepher user services

[Adriano Peluso <randomlooser@riseup.net>]

Il giorno sab, 22/05/2021 alle 15.49 +0200, Leo Prikler ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> the blog post you've linked
>   
> https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2017/running-system-services-in-containers/
> seems to neither contain mentions of XDG_CONFIG_DIR, nor mcron.
> 
> Did you mean 
>   https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/gnu-shepherd-user-services/
> instead?

yes, I pasted the wrong one, sorry


> 
> FWIW, $XDG_CONFIG_DIR should be $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, I myself always mix
> those up as well.  

Good to know

> As far as mcron integration is concerned, it doesn't
> look as though this has been done yet and I think work remains to be
> done to have mcron running "as a part of shepherd" rather than as its
> own daemon.  You can right now already run regular cron-jobs through
> mcron just how people did before systemd was a thing.  You just need
> to
> make sure you launch mcron as a user service if you want to go with
> this particular configuration style, otherwise mcron as a system
> service ought to suffice as well.
> 
> Regards,
> Leo
> 

Ok, thanks