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authornebuli <nebu@kipple>2014-12-03 22:51:48 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-02-08 21:52:26 +0100
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services: lsh: Add graceful handling of daemonic option.
* gnu/services/ssh.scm (lsh-service): New #:keys (daemonic?, pid-file?, pid-file). Build new lshd-command and expand service-requirement field. * doc/guix.texi (Networking Services): Update accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -4526,7 +4526,7 @@ configuration file.
Furthermore, @code{(gnu services ssh)} provides the following service.
@deffn {Monadic Procedure} lsh-service [#:host-key "/etc/lsh/host-key"] @
- [#:interfaces '()] [#:port-number 22] @
+ [#:daemonic? #t] [#:interfaces '()] [#:port-number 22] @
[#:allow-empty-passwords? #f] [#:root-login? #f] @
[#:syslog-output? #t] [#:x11-forwarding? #t] @
[#:tcp/ip-forwarding? #t] [#:password-authentication? #t] @
@@ -4535,6 +4535,12 @@ Run the @command{lshd} program from @var{lsh} to listen on port @var{port-number
@var{host-key} must designate a file containing the host key, and readable
only by root.
+When @var{daemonic?} is true, @command{lshd} will detach from the
+controlling terminal and log its output to syslogd, unless one sets
+@var{syslog-output?} to false. Obviously, it also makes lsh-service
+depend on existence of syslogd service. When @var{pid-file?} is true,
+@command{lshd} writes its PID to the file called @var{pid-file}.
+
When @var{initialize?} is true, automatically create the seed and host key
upon service activation if they do not exist yet. This may take long and
require interaction.