Questions tagged [gnu-shepherd]

Questions about GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd, a service manager that can be used as replacement for SysV-init or other init systems.

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List all available services with (Shep)herd

On a Guix System the PID 1 is called Shepherd and is controlled using the command herd. I often find myself wanting to tab-complete commands beginning with herd, like: $ sudo herd restart some But lacking that, I can't even find a way to list…
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What is dependency-based init system?

My knowledge about init is limited. All the things I know is that init is the first process that kernel starts after getting booted and is assigned with Process ID of 1. Recently while going through GNU Shepherd, I noticed the following…
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