services / documentation issue? about nix-darwin HOT 3 OPEN

You can’t use systemd to manage services on macOS; you use launchd, which inspired systemd, instead. You can search the nix-darwin source for examples of how to define launchd daemons in Nix.

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The channel's postgresql service eventually is missing -D trying master. A lot of services like mysql/postgresql/apache2 whatever share a lot with nixos especially the configuartion file constructions stuff. Is there any planned future or just duplicate code or use flakes ?

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Ok, looks like I got postgresql finally working by removing internal/readonly, by setting dataDir to /Users/m/somtehnig and using superUser=my-user-name .. pg is up and running. But its a nice example that some 'documentation' might be helpful such as: "Hey, defualt user eg for pg is postgres, so make sure you create that user or change it to env "USER'

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