From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56464) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j5tNR-0006fM-EW for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:41:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j5tNP-0006Na-DR for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:41:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j5tNP-0006NU-AI for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:41:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1j5tNP-00070n-8n for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:41:03 -0500 Subject: [bug#39752] [PATCH 3/5] doc: Expand the part on special action 'doc'. Resent-Message-ID: From: Brice Waegeneire Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:40:06 +0100 Message-Id: <20200223154008.24888-4-brice@waegenei.re> In-Reply-To: <20200223154008.24888-1-brice@waegenei.re> References: <20200223091859.21705-1-brice@waegenei.re> <20200223154008.24888-1-brice@waegenei.re> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: 39752@debbugs.gnu.org * doc/shepherd.texi (Jump start): Rewrite paragraph about special action 'doc'. --- doc/shepherd.texi | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/shepherd.texi b/doc/shepherd.texi index 834d47a..fbd1a3f 100644 --- a/doc/shepherd.texi +++ b/doc/shepherd.texi @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ @copying Copyright @copyright{} @value{OLD-YEARS} Wolfgang J@"ahrling@* Copyright @copyright{} @value{NEW-YEARS} Ludovic Courtès +Copyright @copyright{} @value{2020} Brice Waegeneire Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -273,11 +274,6 @@ about the service, like what it provides, what it depends on and with which other services it conflicts (because they provide a virtual service that is also provided by that particular service). -Another special action is @code{list-actions}, which displays a list -of the additional actions a service provides; obviously, it can also -be called when the service is not running. Services cannot provide -their own implementation of @code{list-actions}. - A special service is @code{root}, which is used for controlling the Shepherd itself. You can also reference to this service as @code{shepherd}. It implements various actions. For example, the @@ -293,6 +289,20 @@ to load arbitrary code into the Shepherd at runtime, like this: herd load shepherd ~/additional-services.scm @end example +In the same vein the special action @code{doc} describes it service when +called without an argument or describes a service-specific action when +called with the action as the additional arguments. You can even get +the list of the service-specific actions a service provides when using +with the additional argument @code{list-actions}. +@example +$ herd doc root +The root service is used to operate on shepherd itself. +$ herd doc root list-actions +root (help status halt power-off load eval unload reload daemonize persistency no-persistency cd restart) +$ herd doc root action power-off +power-off: Halt the system and turn it off. +@end example + This is enough now about the @command{herd} and @command{shepherd} programs, we will now take a look at how to configure the Shepherd. In the configuration file, we need mainly the definition of services. We can also do -- 2.25.0