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| author | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-03-05 14:04:34 -0500 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-03-06 13:25:47 -0500 |
| commit | b812da70594f5d40647d156f69be0eb169d6be19 (patch) | |
| tree | acc60d9da35a7c07aad4d93b9022c0df59c7f6cb | |
| parent | 5f8ca95eb54d975e1a9acbe2e1abe6813e469810 (diff) | |
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Revert "doc: Symlink daemon start-up files."
This reverts commit b7230de54b493da5a78922b4226255763b525a98.
Versions of systemd that supported symlinked service files are not yet widely
deployed.
See this thread for more information:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01199.html
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 7c7729859b..732f4312a4 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -443,8 +443,15 @@ Run the daemon, and set it to automatically start on boot. If your host distro uses the systemd init system, this can be achieved with these commands: +@c Versions of systemd that supported symlinked service files are not +@c yet widely deployed, so we should suggest that users copy the service +@c files into place. +@c +@c See this thread for more information: +@c http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01199.html + @example -# ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service \ +# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service \ /etc/systemd/system/ # systemctl start guix-daemon && systemctl enable guix-daemon @end example @@ -452,8 +459,8 @@ with these commands: If your host distro uses the Upstart init system: @example -# ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix-daemon.conf /etc/init/ # initctl reload-configuration +# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix-daemon.conf /etc/init/ # start guix-daemon @end example |