GNU Shepherd 0.6.1 released

GNU Shepherd 0.6.1 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

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We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.6.1, a bug-fix
release.

• About

  The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd is a service manager written
  in Guile that looks after the herd of system services.  It provides a
  replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any
  other init) with a dependency-based system with a convenient
  interface.  The GNU Shepherd may also be used by unprivileged users to
  manage per-user daemons (e.g., tor, privoxy, mcron, etc.)  It is
  written in Guile Scheme, and is configured and extended using Guile.

  The GNU Shepherd is developed jointly with the GNU Guix project; it is
  used as the init system of Guix, GNU’s advanced GNU/Linux distribution.

  https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/


• Download

  Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.6.1.tar.gz
    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.6.1.tar.gz.sig

  Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
    https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/shepherd/shepherd-0.6.1.tar.gz
    https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/shepherd/shepherd-0.6.1.tar.gz.sig

  Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:

  256847dedeee7409181c1c5a667c6dd09900ed69  shepherd-0.6.1.tar.gz
  531bca85ee71ce8e99dcc0add5eb3a968229c350320198db737721b8caaac6f6  shepherd-0.6.1.tar.gz

  [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
  .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
  and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:

    gpg --verify shepherd-0.6.1.tar.gz.sig

  If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
  then run this command to import it:

    gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net \
        --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5

  and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

  This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
    Autoconf 2.69
    Automake 1.16.1
    Makeinfo 6.5
    Help2man 1.47.8


• Changes since version 0.6.0 (excerpt from the NEWS file)

  ** ‘herd status’ distinguishes between “stopped” and “one-shot” services
  ** ‘read-pid-file’ gracefully handles PID files not created atomically
     (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35550>)
  ** ‘shepherd’ no longer crashes when asked to load files with syntax errors
     (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35631>)
  ** New translations: de, sk
  ** Updated translations: da, es, fr, pt_BR


Please report bugs to bug-guix@gnu.org.
Join guix-devel@gnu.org and gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org for discussions.

Ludovic, on behalf of the Shepherd herd.

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Re: GNU Shepherd 0.6.1 released

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.6.1, a bug-fix
> release.

Congrats!

>   interface.  The GNU Shepherd may also be used by unprivileged users to
>   manage per-user daemons (e.g., tor, privoxy, mcron, etc.)

Is there a tutorial about using shepherd for per-user daemons? I don’t
really know how to start with it, but I would very much like to
move services from "just start this in ~/.bashrc" to shepherd.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken

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Re: GNU Shepherd 0.6.1 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Arne,

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>>   interface.  The GNU Shepherd may also be used by unprivileged users to
>>   manage per-user daemons (e.g., tor, privoxy, mcron, etc.)
>
> Is there a tutorial about using shepherd for per-user daemons? I don’t
> really know how to start with it, but I would very much like to
> move services from "just start this in ~/.bashrc" to shepherd.

There’s no tutorial, but the manual has a couple of examples, and I
think it’s rather easy to get started.

Cheers,
Ludo’.

Re: GNU Shepherd 0.6.1 released

[Nala Ginrut]

Hi Ludo!
First, congrats!
I saw it describes that "intended for use on GNU/Hurd", is it still
workable on GNU/Linux?

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 3:59 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Arne,
>
> Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> skribis:
>
> > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> >>   interface.  The GNU Shepherd may also be used by unprivileged users to
> >>   manage per-user daemons (e.g., tor, privoxy, mcron, etc.)
> >
> > Is there a tutorial about using shepherd for per-user daemons? I don’t
> > really know how to start with it, but I would very much like to
> > move services from "just start this in ~/.bashrc" to shepherd.
>
> There’s no tutorial, but the manual has a couple of examples, and I
> think it’s rather easy to get started.
>
> Cheers,
> Ludo’.
>

Re: GNU Shepherd 0.6.1 released

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

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Hi Nala Ginrut,

Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> writes:
> I saw it describes that "intended for use on GNU/Hurd", is it still
> workable on GNU/Linux?

Since that’s where it’s mainly used: definitely yes.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken

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Re: GNU Shepherd 0.6.1 released

[Nala Ginrut]

Thanks Arne!
I'm still trying to find a way to get rid of systemd for a certain
purpose, that's great!

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 4:19 AM Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Nala Ginrut,
>
> Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> writes:
> > I saw it describes that "intended for use on GNU/Hurd", is it still
> > workable on GNU/Linux?
>
> Since that’s where it’s mainly used: definitely yes.
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
> --
> Unpolitisch sein
> heißt politisch sein
> ohne es zu merken