Hi Sergiu! On Mon, Jan 25 2021, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
I understand that I should somehow construct a <service> (?) from my <shepherd-service>, but I don't see a way to do it.
Unfortunately Guix overloads the word "service", where we have (a) services that consist of structured modifications to an operating system, and (b) shepherd services that define a process that will run on the resulting system. Shepherd services cannot be used directly, but need to be added to an instance of the shepherd-root-service-type service. The easiest way to do this is to use simple-service (documented in "(guix) Service Reference" in the manual).
Putting it together, this should return a service object which runs your redshift shepherd service:
(simple-service 'redshift-service 'shepherd-root-service-type (list redshift-service))
I hope that helps! Carlo
