extending a service to create an extra directory

extending a service to create an extra directory

[Robert Vollmert]

Hi,

I’m trying to set up nginx properly, and my config involves a
cache directory, say /var/nginx/cache. To encode this properly,
I’d like to to make my nginx service create that directory
with appropriate user and rights on service activation. I can’t
figure out how to do that without assembling a whole new service
out of the parts of the existing nginx-service. There must be a
more reasonable way?

Cheers
Robert

Re: extending a service to create an extra directory

[Reza Alizadeh Majd]

Hi, 

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, at 6:30 PM, Robert Vollmert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m trying to set up nginx properly, and my config involves a
> cache directory, say /var/nginx/cache. To encode this properly,
> I’d like to to make my nginx service create that directory
> with appropriate user and rights on service activation. I can’t
> figure out how to do that without assembling a whole new service
> out of the parts of the existing nginx-service. There must be a
> more reasonable way?
> 
> Cheers
> Robert
> 

It seems that proper way to do this is to define a new service for
activating cache directory. since it was defined previously on Guix
CI server: 

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/hydra/modules/sysadmin/services.scm#n221

Best, 
Reza

Re: extending a service to create an extra directory

[Robert Vollmert]

On 20. Jul 2019, at 08:18, Reza Alizadeh Majd <r.majd@pantherx.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, at 6:30 PM, Robert Vollmert wrote:
>> 
>> I’m trying to set up nginx properly, and my config involves a
>> cache directory, say /var/nginx/cache. To encode this properly,
>> I’d like to to make my nginx service create that directory
>> with appropriate user and rights on service activation. I can’t
>> figure out how to do that without assembling a whole new service
>> out of the parts of the existing nginx-service. There must be a
>> more reasonable way?
> 
> It seems that proper way to do this is to define a new service for
> activating cache directory. since it was defined previously on Guix
> CI server: 
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/hydra/modules/sysadmin/services.scm#n221

Thanks for the pointer. Even apart from my concrete issue here, reading
a complete worked config is very helpful — would be great if the manual
contained such (or a link to some examples).

The particular example of using a simple-service of activation-service-type
is also helpful; it will work for me for now.

It bothers me a bit that this activation action isn’t “part” of the nginx
services activation. I could see nginx activation fail if the cache directory
service didn’t happen to run first. Might this be solved be by adding a
shepherd “requirement”?

Cheers
Robert