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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Subject: Re: Configuring a service but not starting it on boot
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:20:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftvl15ll.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7y39dji72.fsf@systemreboot.net> (Arun Isaac's message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:41:13 +0530")

Hello Arun,

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:

>> Attached is a hack I did a while ago.
>
> Hacks like the one you showed could work, but it would be nice to have a
> general purpose #:auto-start? property common to all services. Is there
> such a feature? If not, could we implement such a feature?

The openssh service has such an option, but currently, it’s really
per-service, which isn’t great.  It would be best if we had a generic
way to say which Shepherd services should be started automatically and
which shouldn’t.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-28 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-28  7:47 Configuring a service but not starting it on boot Arun Isaac
2018-11-28  9:34 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-11-28 16:11   ` Arun Isaac
2018-11-28 16:44     ` znavko
2018-11-28 17:20     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-11-28 17:52       ` Arun Isaac
2018-11-29 10:49         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-30  9:03           ` Arun Isaac

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