Re: Privoxy user config without hard-coded GNU store path?

[Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>]

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Hi Efraim!

Thanks for the suggestions!

> The simple solution here is to change the lines to 
> confdir /home/USER/.guix-profile/etc/privoxy
> logdir /home/USER/log/privoxy

Duh, that was easy! :p

> If you want an untested user shepherd service, here's one I've come up
> with on the spot:
>
> (define privoxy
>   (make <service>
>   #:provides '(privoxy)
>   #:docstring "Privoxy filters outgoing internet connections"
>   #:start (make-forkexec-constructor
>             '("/var/guix/profiles/per-user/USER/current-guix/bin/privoxy" "--no-daemon" "/home/USER/.config/privoxy/config")
>             #:log-file "/home/USER/log/privoxy/privoxy.log")
>   #:stop (make-kill-destructor)
>   #:respawn? #t))
> (register-services privoxy)

That's a good starting point, but furthermore what I meant was a service
in which we declare the configuration file, so that I don't need to
provide my own "config".

I guess that'd be another neat service to add to Shepherd/Guix ;)

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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