Re: Announcing shepherd-run

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 04:57:09PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:19:04 +0200
>> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:
>> 
>> > Announcing the initial release of shepherd-run!
>> > 
>> > Do you have experience with systemd and systemd-run? Do you wish you
>> > were able to quickly and easily add a simple service to your (user or
>> > system) shepherd instance?
>> > 
>> > Using the finest technologies from the 70's, written in gawk, I
>> > present shepherd-run!

An interesting blend of technologies from the 70’s.  :-)

>> Is there any plans to integrate that with Guix and Shepherd later on?
>
> If it proves to be useful I could see re-writing it in guile so it can
> be part of shepherd directly.

Shepherd 1.0-to-be (current ‘devel’ branch) gained a generic ‘timer’
service that does the job the ‘at’ command would do back in the day
(before the advent of CD-ROM and the information superhighway):

  herd schedule timer at 07:00 -- mpg123 alarm.mp3

We’re talking about something quite similar, just not delayed, right?

Ludo’.