diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 57994c6..d62e070 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ vim/spell
 services/*/supervise
 services/*/lock
 services/*/current
+services/*/down
 
 # other
 *.pyc
diff --git a/services/notmuch/notmuch b/services/notmuch/notmuch
deleted file mode 100755
index fec8175..0000000
--- a/services/notmuch/notmuch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-
-# check for internet connection
-ip route ls | grep -q '.'
-
-# check if the gpg-agent is running
-pgrep gpg-agent > /dev/null
-
-notmuch new --quiet 2>&1
-
-exec sleep 1m
diff --git a/services/notmuch/run b/services/notmuch/run
index b02984a..41225b4 100755
--- a/services/notmuch/run
+++ b/services/notmuch/run
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-exec env                                                       \
-    HOME="${HOME:-/home/noctua}"                               \
-    XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-/home/noctua/.config}" \
-    LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8"                                       \
-    LANG="en_US.utf-8"                                         \
-    PATH="/usr/local/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"               \
-    DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:0}"                                   \
-    ./notmuch
+export USER="$(whoami)"
+export HOME=/home/"$USER"
+export DISPLAY=":0"
+. "$HOME"/.profile
+
+set -e
+
+# check for internet connection
+ip route ls | grep -q '.'
+
+# check if the gpg-agent is running
+pgrep gpg-agent > /dev/null
+
+notmuch new --quiet 2>&1
+
+exec sleep 1m
diff --git a/services/spotifyd/run b/services/spotifyd/run
index e3aefb0..757f320 100755
--- a/services/spotifyd/run
+++ b/services/spotifyd/run
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-exec > /dev/null
-exec env -i                                                    \
-    HOME="${HOME:-/home/noctua}"                               \
-    XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-/home/noctua/.config}" \
-    XDG_CACHE_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-/home/noctua/.cache}"   \
-    PATH="/usr/local/bin:$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"               \
-    DISPLAY=":0"                                               \
-    /home/noctua/.cargo/bin/spotifyd --no-daemon
+#!/bin/sh
+export USER="$(whoami)"
+export HOME=/home/"$USER"
+export DISPLAY=":0"
+. "$HOME/.profile"
+
+spotifyd --no-daemon 2>&1 \
+	| tee -a $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/playlist \
+	| sed '/trunc/d;/loaded$/d;/^Loading/d'
diff --git a/services/vdirsyncer/run b/services/vdirsyncer/run
index 8810fc7..a706016 100755
--- a/services/vdirsyncer/run
+++ b/services/vdirsyncer/run
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-exec env                                                       \
-    HOME="${HOME:-/home/noctua}"                               \
-    XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-/home/noctua/.config}" \
-    LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8"                                       \
-    LANG="en_US.utf-8"                                         \
-    PATH="/usr/local/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"               \
-    DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:0}"                                   \
-    ./vdirsyncer
+export USER="$(whoami)"
+export HOME=/home/"$USER"
+export DISPLAY=":0"
+. "$HOME"/.profile
+
+set -e
+
+# check for internet connection
+ip route ls | grep -q '.'
+
+# check if the gpg-agent is running
+pgrep gpg-agent > /dev/null
+
+vdirsyncer -v CRITICAL sync 2>&1
+
+exec sleep 10m
diff --git a/services/vdirsyncer/vdirsyncer b/services/vdirsyncer/vdirsyncer
deleted file mode 100755
index 956d53d..0000000
--- a/services/vdirsyncer/vdirsyncer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-
-# check for internet connection
-ip route ls | grep -q '.'
-
-# check if the gpg-agent is running
-pgrep gpg-agent > /dev/null
-
-vdirsyncer -v CRITICAL sync 2>&1
-
-exec sleep 10m