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diff --git a/topics/systems/shepherd.gmi b/topics/systems/shepherd.gmi index 60e7d14..e8c81b0 100644 --- a/topics/systems/shepherd.gmi +++ b/topics/systems/shepherd.gmi @@ -13,10 +13,16 @@ Here we record information on running shepherd (on Debian). # Issues * [ ] Currently guix system is started up using sudo as a shepherd user. This may be resolved in time when we start to use full Guix solutions +* [ ] Monitor services inside system containers # Quick overview On Debian the GNU shepherd can run in systemd as a 'shepherd' user because we typically run (system) containers that have root inside them. +To run the system containers and other services as different users we can use sudo. +This is not ideal, but the idea is to be able to transition to a full Guix system in the future. +Another issue is that services that run inside system containers are hard to monitor because shepherd only sees the outside of the container - at this point. + +We use systemd to handle shepherd: ``` systemctl status user-shepherd.service @@ -42,10 +48,6 @@ WantedBy=multi-user.target One advantage of using a normal user is that it is easy to test configurations as a different user on the same machine! -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 after creating the shepherd user is ``` @@ -54,9 +56,7 @@ 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. +When shepherd starts up it should start all the services. So currently on tux02 that is 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'. |