Re: Announcing shepherd-run

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

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

> On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 11:34:50PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> 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?
>
> systemd-run has a --timer flag, and I could see adding a flag for
> shepherd-run after shepherd 1.0.
>
> To me the big thing systemd-run brought was being able to launch
> programs from the shell and have it show up in `systemctl --user
> services`, and I'd like to be able to get commands I run from the CLI to
> show up in `herd status` the same way.

Easy.  :-)  That’s really what ‘herd schedule timer’ does, except it’s
delayed.

> systemd has some more magic I wanted to steal, like being able to launch
> GUI applications from systemd-run.

Trickier I guess, because you need to pass DISPLAY etc.

Food for thought!

Ludo’.