From 9385c82c5471754635b4d2e90a3a77a7e91d7275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:10:51 +0200
Subject: services: nscd: Depend on syslogd.

This gets rid of nscd debug messages on the console at boot time.

* gnu/services/base.scm (nscd-shepherd-service): Add dependency on
'syslogd'.
---
 gnu/services/base.scm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'gnu')

diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 75d4e7b741..e8eae72aa2 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -1428,7 +1428,11 @@ the tty to run, among other things."
     (list (shepherd-service
            (documentation "Run libc's name service cache daemon (nscd).")
            (provision '(nscd))
-           (requirement '(user-processes))
+
+           ;; Logs are written with syslog(3), which writes to /dev/console
+           ;; when nobody's listening--ugly.  Thus, wait for syslogd.
+           (requirement '(user-processes syslogd))
+
            (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
                      (list #$nscd "-f" #$nscd.conf "--foreground")
 
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