The difference between xsession and xprofile is that xsession is exec'd and xprofile is sourced.
So with xprofile all commands after sourcing will still be exectued. This allows for instance
autostarting of applications while configuring the start of a window manager via configuration.nix.
This patch adds support for the creations of new bond devices, aggregate
pipes of physical devices for extra throughput or failover.
Additionally, add better correction at the startup of a bridge
of vlan interface (delete old, stale interfaces).
The redshift service stops working after some time (the program exits
after some hours/days). It looks like these exits are related to calls
to xrandr (for multiple displays) or suspend-to-ram.
Signed-off-by: Moritz Ulrich <moritz@tarn-vedra.de>
PR #1366
The previous windowManager.xmonad option only starts xmonad and
doesn't make ghc available. This assumes that the user has GHC with
access to the xmonad package in his PATH when using xmonad.
Xmonad in Nix is now patched to accept the XMONAD_{GHC,XMESSAGE}
environment variables which define the path to either ghc or xmessage.
These are set automatically when using xmonad through
windowManager.xmonad.
My (or specific: @aristidb and my) changes make it possible to use
Xmonad without adding GHC to any profile. This is useful if you want
to add a different GHC to your profile.
This commit introduces some options:
- xmonad.haskellPackages: Controls which Haskell package set & GHC set
is used to (re)build Xmonad
- xmonad.extraPackages: Function returning a list of additional
packages to make available to GHC when rebuilding Xmonad
- xmonad.enableContribExtras: Boolean option to build xmonadContrib
and xmonadExtras.
Signed-off-by: Moritz Ulrich <moritz@tarn-vedra.de>
If you want minidla to accept connections from the rest of the world, please
add
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 8200 ];
networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ 1900 ];
to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
See <http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2013-November/011997.html>
for the discussion that lead to this.
If you want x11vnc to receive TCP connections from the rest of the world,
please add
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 5900 ];
to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
See <http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2013-November/011997.html>
for the discussion that lead to this.
If you want CUPS to receive UDP printer announcements from the rest of the
world, please add
networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ 631 ];
to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
See <http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2013-November/011997.html>
for the discussion that lead to this.
ntopng is a high-speed web-based traffic analysis and flow collection
tool. Enable it by adding this to configuration.nix:
services.ntopng.enable = true;
Open a browser at http://localhost:3000 and login with the default
username/password: admin/admin.
Postgres was taking a long time to shutdown. This is because we were
sending SIGINT to all processes, apparently confusing the autovacuum
launcher. Instead it should only be sent to the main process (which
takes care of shutting down the others).
The downside is that systemd will also send the final SIGKILL only to
the main process, so other processes in the cgroup may be left behind.
There should be an option for this...
libvirtd puts the full path of the emulator binary in the machine config
file. But this path can unfortunately be garbage collected while still
being used by the virtual machine. Then this happens:
Error starting domain: Cannot check QEMU binary /nix/store/z5c2xzk9x0pj6x511w0w4gy9xl5wljxy-qemu-1.5.2-x86-only/bin/qemu-kvm: No such file or directory
Fix by updating the emulator path on each service startup to something
valid (re-scan $PATH).
You can now say:
systemd.containers.foo.config =
{ services.openssh.enable = true;
services.openssh.ports = [ 2022 ];
users.extraUsers.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [ "ssh-dss ..." ];
};
which defines a NixOS instance with the given configuration running
inside a lightweight container.
You can also manage the configuration of the container independently
from the host:
systemd.containers.foo.path = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/containers/foo";
where "path" is a NixOS system profile. It can be created/updated by
doing:
$ nix-env --set -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/containers/foo \
-f '<nixos>' -A system -I nixos-config=foo.nix
The container configuration (foo.nix) should define
boot.isContainer = true;
to optimise away the building of a kernel and initrd. This is done
automatically when using the "config" route.
On the host, a lightweight container appears as the service
"container-<name>.service". The container is like a regular NixOS
(virtual) machine, except that it doesn't have its own kernel. It has
its own root file system (by default /var/lib/containers/<name>), but
shares the Nix store of the host (as a read-only bind mount). It also
has access to the network devices of the host.
Currently, if the configuration of the container changes, running
"nixos-rebuild switch" on the host will cause the container to be
rebooted. In the future we may want to send some message to the
container so that it can activate the new container configuration
without rebooting.
Containers are not perfectly isolated yet. In particular, the host's
/sys/fs/cgroup is mounted (writable!) in the guest.
The attribute ‘config.systemd.services.<service-name>.runner’
generates a script that runs the service outside of systemd. This is
useful for testing, and also allows NixOS services to be used outside
of NixOS. For instance, given a configuration file foo.nix:
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{ services.postgresql.enable = true;
services.postgresql.package = pkgs.postgresql92;
services.postgresql.dataDir = "/tmp/postgres";
}
you can build and run PostgreSQL as follows:
$ nix-build -A config.systemd.services.postgresql.runner -I nixos-config=./foo.nix
$ ./result
This will run the service's ExecStartPre, ExecStart, ExecStartPost and
ExecStopPost commands in an appropriate environment. It doesn't work
well yet for "forking" services, since it can't track the main
process. It also doesn't work for services that assume they're always
executed by root.
Fixes this:
Nov 09 16:18:54 nixos-laptop systemd[1]: Starting Libvirt Virtual Machine Management Daemon...
Nov 09 16:18:54 nixos-laptop dnsmasq[15809]: read /etc/hosts - 2 addresses
Nov 09 16:18:54 nixos-laptop dnsmasq[15809]: failed to load names from /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.addnhosts: Permission denied
Nov 09 16:18:54 nixos-laptop dnsmasq[15809]: cannot read /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.hostsfile: Permission denied
Nov 09 16:18:55 nixos-laptop systemd[1]: Started Libvirt Virtual Machine Management Daemon.
I don't understand the reason for the original 700 permission bits.
Apparently read-access is needed and Ubuntu also use 755 perms.
Use "chmod" instead of "mkdir -m" to set permissions because mkdir doesn't
modify permissions on existing directories.
(systemd service descriptions that is, not service descriptions in "man
configuration.nix".)
Capitalizing each word in the description seems to be the accepted
standard.
Also shorten these descriptions:
* "Munin node, the agent process" => "Munin Node"
* "Planet Venus, an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader" => "Planet Venus Feed Reader"
- It now uses JavaScript for configuration (only),
so I had to "convert" config for NetworkManager.
- I tested suspend/restart/(un)mount on KDE/Xfce,
Phreedom tested NetworkManager config conversion.
* Use smaller instances to generate HVM images
* Use HVM base image that has 4 ephemeral disks in device mapping
* As grub is not on the base images anymore, install it first before copying parts of its contents
Gnome doesn't work at least since I started using NixOS half a year
ago, let's not give wrong impressions to newcomers. Packaging gnome3
is still something on horizon.
A null password allows logging into local PAM services such as "login"
(agetty) and KDM. That's not actually a security problem for EC2
machines, since they do not have "local" logins; for VirtualBox
machines, if you local access, you can do anything anyway. But it's
better to be on the safe side and disable password-based logins for
root.
E.g.
The unique option `fileSystems./.device' is defined multiple times, in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' and `/etc/nixos/foo.nix'.
This requires passing file/value tuples to the merge functions.
