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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-05-01 13:57:23 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-05-01 13:57:23 -0400
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@@ -186,3 +186,18 @@ Now this is not without problems:
3. it is Debian-specific (a proper init script would be POSIX only and/or a `.service` file)
Maybe using [metainit](https://wiki.debian.org/MetaInit) would be a good idea here? --[[anarcat]]
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+> This strikes me as a bad idea if the system has regular desktop etc
+> users; the assistant can already start itself when they login and
+> a separate user has the same problems the separate mpd user seems to;
+> of separating the user from the files that effcetively belong to them.
+>
+> It's fine if you're doing something more specialized, but that seems
+> like an unusual case and not one that git-annex should cater to.
+>
+> Anyway, it's about 5 lines to write a systemd service file. I've added
+> `git annex assistant --autostop` that such a service can use if desired.
+>
+> Since I don't want to include that in git-annex and be stuck supporting
+> it, and it should be easy for users to add if they need it, I think I'm
+> going to call this [[done]]. --[[Joey]]