# Shepherd

On Debian based systems we run shepherd as a shepherd user. The service gets started up through systemd:

```
[Unit]
Description=Launch user shepherd daemon
Wants=guix-daemon.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/shepherd/guix-profile/bin/shepherd --socket=/home/shepherd/.config/shepherd/shepherd.sock
User=shepherd
Group=shepherd

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```

=> https://git.genenetwork.org/efraim/shepherd-services Running shepherd services