On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 02:02:55PM +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I came across recently on GNU Shepherd user services:
>
> `The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd, formerly known as GNU dmd, is a
> service manager 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 both powerful and beautiful dependency-based system with a
> convenient interface.` [1]
>
> As an initial introduction, I took a look, among other things, at the pages at
> the links that I report below.
>
> Also to help me better understand what it is (my knowledge of service-managing
> is at user level, and therefore not very thorough), I would be interested in
> reading your comments and considerations.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Best regards

Very interesting.

I've always had a soft spot for Lisp, and especially its offspring
Scheme. And this uses Guile, an implementation of Scheme.

I wonder if GNU Shepherd needs to run as PID 1?
Or can it run as a service manager under another init system?
Or even under another service manager?

-- hendrik

>
>
> Refs:
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> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
>
> [2] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/gnu-shepherd-user-services/
>
> [3] https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/shepherd.html
>
> [4] https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/shepherd/
>
> [5] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-11/msg00065.html
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>
>
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> al3xu5
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