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nix-daemon service script for OpenRC
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| #!/sbin/openrc-run | |
| name="nix-daemon" | |
| description="Nix Daemon" | |
| supervisor="supervise-daemon" | |
| command="/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin/nix-daemon" | |
| pidfile="/run/${RC_SVCNAME}.pid" | |
| command_background=true |
Just make sure to change it to an executable with chmod +x /etc/init.d/nix-daemon
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Ran into an issue trying to install Nix on an OpenRC based system. I searched online to see if someone else had already made a service script for it but I could not find any search-engine visible solutions. Decided I should share my script for others who might run into the same stumbling block in the future. Hope this helps 💖
Just drop it into your /etc/init.d/ and use
rc-update add nix-daemonto add it to the default runlevel.I ended up digging into packages for Nix from some non-systemd operating systems to see how they handled it but their solutions seemed outdated. I don't know if the solution I ended up coming up with is actually the most correct one, as I am not well versed in the ways of OpenRC, but after going over its documentation a few times, transcribing functionality from the nix-daemon.service template file as best I could, and perusing the Nix daemon source code to make sure I wasn't missing some important behaviour, I feel confident enough to put it out into the wild.
If you have any suggestions to improve it please share!