Re: Shepherd user services that run on startup?

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

Ben Weinstein-Raun <root@benwr.net> writes:

> Hello! I'm fairly new to using Guix System, and I have a lot of questions.
>
> One is: Is it possible to run a shepherd user service at system start, 
> rather than at login?
>
> My guess is that this is at least possible, by defining a system-level 
> service that starts a shepherd for each user. Would that work?
>
> Anyone have tips on how to go about building this, if so? Especially: 
> What's the easiest way to ensure that a guix service knows the list of 
> users-with-login-shells on the system? And easiest way to run a 
> `shepherd` instance as each such user on startup? I'm working on writing 
> a service definition, but as this is my first from-scratch service (guix 
> or shepherd), and one of my first lisp projects since reading SICP 15 
> years ago, it's slow going (even with the reference manual and source 
> code of other services).
>
>
> And, of course, is there a simpler way?
>
>
> (I also asked this question on the r/guix subreddit, but haven't heard 
> anything yet, and figured I'd ask here too)

Not a direct answer, but this seems similar to systemd's linger
functionality, that might be worth taking a look at.