We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.3, the new alpha release of was used to be called GNU dmd.
• About The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd is a service manager written in Guile that looks after the herd of system services. It provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any other init) with a dependency-based system with a convenient interface. The GNU Shepherd may also be used by unprivileged users to manage per-user daemons (e.g., tor, privoxy, mcron, etc.) It is written in Guile Scheme, and is configured and extended using Guile. The GNU Shepherd is developed jointly with the GNU Guix project; it is used as the init system of GuixSD, GNU’s advanced GNU/Linux distribution. Before this release, the GNU Shepherd was known as GNU dmd, the daemon-managing daemon. http://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/ • Download Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/shepherd-0.3.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/shepherd-0.3.tar.gz.sig Note: source code will eventually be available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd. Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: f34cf481a8a7a557771799aea5f7a9a6 shepherd-0.3.tar.gz 16fab265a22a3d6dfe46fe172e0af388fa3be796 shepherd-0.3.tar.gz [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify shepherd-0.3.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 3D9AEBB5 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69 Automake 1.15 Makeinfo 6.0 Help2man 1.47.3 • Changes since version 0.2 (excerpt from the NEWS file) ** GNU dmd becomes the GNU Shepherd The GNU Shepherd herds your daemons! See http://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/#history for details. As a side effect, many incompatible changes were made: - The ‘dmd’ command was renamed to ‘shepherd’. - The ‘deco’ command was renamed to ‘herd’. - The default system-wide config file is now /etc/shepherd.scm. - The default per-user config file is now ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm. - The special ‘dmd’ service is now called ‘root’ and ‘shepherd’. Thus, instead of: deco load dmd foo.scm you would now type: herd load root foo.scm - Guile modules now live in the (shepherd …) name space. ** ‘herd status’ and ‘herd detailed-status’ assumes the ‘root’ service That is, ‘herd status’ is equivalent to ‘herd status root’. ** ‘herd help’ returns a meaningful help message ** ‘shepherd’ stops itself when it receives SIGINT This is what happens when ‘shepherd’ is running as PID 1 on GNU/Linux and ctrl-alt-del is pressed (see ctrlaltdel(8)). ** ‘halt’ and ‘reboot’ connect to the system socket unconditionally ** ‘herd’ uses a non-zero exit code upon errors ** The ‘root’ service has a new ‘eval’ action ** Basic man pages are now provided ** ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ has new #:group and #:user parameters ** ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ has a new #:pid-file parameter ** (shepherd services) now exports ‘make-actions’ and ‘provided-by’ ** ‘shepherd --pid=FILE’ writes FILE atomically ** The communication protocol is now entirely sexp-based (see the manual) ** ‘shepherd’ is more robust to misbehaving clients ** Cross-compilation is now supported ** The build system uses “silent rules” by default ** Internally, the coding style of various parts has been improved Please report bugs to bug-g...@gnu.org. Join guix-devel@gnu.org and gnu-system-disc...@gnu.org for discussions. Thanks to everyone who contributed! 19 Alex Kost 1 Andy Wingo 2 David Michael 3 David Thompson 1 Fabian Harfert 73 Ludovic Courtès 10 Mathieu Lirzin Ludovic.
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