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| author | Pjotr Prins | 2022-10-08 12:07:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Pjotr Prins | 2022-10-08 12:07:56 -0500 |
| commit | 1066a1053c6d6f4d2b09f086226b4388c951d914 (patch) | |
| tree | 8998d871dc827e7309d274e8b1cd00b6152c5722 /topics/systems/shepherd.gmi | |
| parent | 0105391c4cddc9dad5affd98dab3edcce35752f1 (diff) | |
| download | gn-gemtext-1066a1053c6d6f4d2b09f086226b4388c951d914.tar.gz | |
shepherd: add info
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diff --git a/topics/systems/shepherd.gmi b/topics/systems/shepherd.gmi index ea5f10b..d67d9d6 100644 --- a/topics/systems/shepherd.gmi +++ b/topics/systems/shepherd.gmi @@ -2,15 +2,42 @@ ## Tags -* assigned: ?? +* assigned: pjotrp, efraimf * type: documentation * keywords: system, shepherd -* status: unclear +* status: wip * priority: unclear ## Description -On Debian based systems we run shepherd as a shepherd user. The service gets started up through systemd: +On Debian based systems we run shepherd as a shepherd user. The service gets started up through systemd. +There is currently a systemd service to automatically start shepherd +on system boot-up. A copy of the service lives in the shepherd-service +repository. + +The process for deploying the services: + +symlink shepherd-services/shepherd to $HOME/.config/shepherd +symlink shepherd-services/cron to $home/.config/cron +symlink shepherd-services/*sh to $HOME + +When shepherd starts up it should start all the services. So currently +that's bnw, gitea, ipfs, power, rn6app, singlecell and the mcron +services, gitea-dump and pubmed. + +To use shepherd's herd command the command is 'sudo -u shepherd +/home/shepherd/.guix-profile/bin/herd status'. + +: /home/shepherd/.guix-profile/bin/herd status + +Adding a bash alias, such as "alias herd-herd='sudo -u shepherd +/home/shepherd/.guix-profile/bin/herd'", will make it easier to +interact with shepherd without needing to switch to the shepherd +user. The logs for the various shepherd services are located in +/home/shepherd/logs/ but are not yet timestamped. The log for shepherd +itself is in /home/shepherd/.config/shepherd/shepherd.log. There is +not yet a way to change this from a config file. + ``` [Unit] @@ -31,4 +58,5 @@ WantedBy=multi-user.target ## Notes -This seems to be documentation, and not necessarily a task, issue or enhancement to be worked on +This seems to be documentation, and not necessarily a task, issue or enhancement to be worked on. +It is a topic. |