Re: modular shepherd config

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hello Efraim,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> A while ago I split my personal shepherd init.scm into a bunch of files
> and I wanted to document it somewhere for others to see also. Any
> suggestion where I should put it? Shepherd manual? guix-cookbook?

Since this is purely about organizing Shepherd services (with nothing
specific about Guix), I'd add this to the Shepherd manual; then perhaps
link to it from other places if relevant.

> (ins)efraim@E5400 ~$ tree .config/shepherd/
> .config/shepherd/
> ├── init.d
> │   ├── dropbox.scm
> │   ├── fccache.scm
> │   ├── gnupg.scm
> │   ├── guix.scm
> │   ├── kdeconnect.scm
> │   ├── mbsync.scm
> │   ├── syncthing.scm
> │   └── vdirsyncer.scm
> ├── init.scm
> └── shepherd.log
>
> (ins)efraim@E5400 ~$ cat .config/shepherd/init.scm
> (use-modules (shepherd service)
>              ((ice-9 ftw) #:select (scandir)))
>
> ;; Load all the files in the directory 'init.d' with a suffix '.scm'.
> (for-each
>   (lambda (file)
>     (load (string-append "init.d/" file)))
>   (scandir (string-append (dirname (current-filename)) "/init.d")
>            (lambda (file)
>              (string-suffix? ".scm" file))))
>
> ;; Send shepherd into the background
> (action 'shepherd 'daemonize)

Don't you also need to register the services and arrange to have them
started?

My init.scm looks like:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;;; Shepherd User Services
(load "services.scm")

(register-services
 emacs
 gpg-agent
 jackd
 ibus-daemon
 workrave)

;; Send shepherd into the background.
(action 'shepherd 'daemonize)

;; Services to start when shepherd starts:
(for-each start '(emacs
		  gpg-agent
		  ibus-daemon
		  workrave))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks for sharing!

Maxim