[Nix-dev] Please help me with getting the Taskserver service running

[Matthias Beyer]

On 17-11-2015 16:59:16, Marc Weber wrote:
> > The problems I'm facing is mainly the fact that the taskserver wants
> > to create certificates and keys[1]. A follow-up problem will be the
> > creating of users on the taskserver.
> What about describing which kind of user(s) you mean? /etc/passwd ones?

No, taskserver internal ones.

> Certificates: Apache and similar have settings to tell it which
> certificates to use. You want to look at similar services like
> ssh/dovecot/... how it is done. I'm unsure.
> 
> There are two choices: Either use a pre startup script to create them
> (eg mysqlinit or such gets used this way) - or allow user to set paths.
> 
> Usually its nice if things "just work" which means generating
> certificates.

That's what I'm aiming for.

> 
> Eg mysql does not populate time zone info (mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /etc/zoneinfo/ | mysql)
> should it be done? the MYSQL_TZ function requires it (otherwise it returns null)
> 
> If nobody has a strong opnion just be the maintainer and make a choice ?

What do you mean by that?

> 
> Testing services see nixos/tests/* How to run? See nixos/release.nix or
> release-combined. nix-build -A tests.firwall -f release.nix or such.
> (I didn't run any test for a long time).

Yeah, I know that already, though there is no documentation on how to
_write_ them properly!

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Matthias Beyer

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