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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:37:44 +0000
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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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On 17-02-13 10:30:10, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
> Hi Leo!
>=20
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
>=20
> > Does anyone have advice about how to start an unprivileged user's
> > services when the system boots?
> >
> > On other systems, I could at least invoke them in /etc/rc.local, but =
I'm
> > not sure how to do it on GuixSD.
>=20
> Currently I run shepherd as myself, which reads from
> ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm.  It gets started from my ~/.xsession.
>=20
> Admittedly this is a bit of a hack.  It wouldn=E2=80=99t be hard to def=
ine
> per-user Shepherd instances as global Shepherd services in GuixSD, if
> you see what I mean.
>=20
> Another option would be to add support for this directly in the
> Shepherd, which has pros and cons.

What are the pros and cons from your point of view, could you explain thi=
s?
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> HTH!
>=20
> Ludo=E2=80=99.
>=20

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