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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2023-04-20 21:10:51 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2023-04-21 16:16:37 +0200
commit9385c82c5471754635b4d2e90a3a77a7e91d7275 (patch)
treeb6299b45e2d4e95ba6d37706b0c2f0e3ca6dbd3f
parente45306c1982aee194243cf661295c7ca776d879f (diff)
downloadguix-9385c82c5471754635b4d2e90a3a77a7e91d7275.tar.gz
services: nscd: Depend on syslogd.
This gets rid of nscd debug messages on the console at boot time.

* gnu/services/base.scm (nscd-shepherd-service): Add dependency on
'syslogd'.
-rw-r--r--gnu/services/base.scm6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 75d4e7b741..e8eae72aa2 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -1428,7 +1428,11 @@ the tty to run, among other things."
     (list (shepherd-service
            (documentation "Run libc's name service cache daemon (nscd).")
            (provision '(nscd))
-           (requirement '(user-processes))
+
+           ;; Logs are written with syslog(3), which writes to /dev/console
+           ;; when nobody's listening--ugly.  Thus, wait for syslogd.
+           (requirement '(user-processes syslogd))
+
            (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
                      (list #$nscd "-f" #$nscd.conf "--foreground")