https://github.com/dreamcat4/brew-launchd

For Mac Homebrew. An extension to start and stop Launchd services.
https://github.com/dreamcat4/brew-launchd

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For Mac Homebrew. An extension to start and stop Launchd services.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dreamcat4/brew-launchd
• Owner: dreamcat4
• License: mit
• Created: 2010-07-26T14:42:23.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-09-02T08:04:06.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-18T13:15:13.765Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://github.com/dreamcat4/brew-launchd
• Size: 199 KB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rdoc
  • License: LICENSE

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= brew launchd

An extension to start and stop Launchd services.

== Quick try out

Tip: if you dont want to mess with your current homebrew

installation, heres how to install seperately.

    $ git clone https://[email protected]/dreamcat4/homebrew.git

    $ cd homebrew

    $ git checkout issue-148-launchd

    

    # Example

    $ bin/brew install redis

    $ bin/brew start redis

    $ telnet localhost 6379 # (See if redis is running)

    $ bin/brew stop redis

    

    # Report on installed services

    $ bin/brew launchd info

    # View the redis formula

    $bin/brew edit redis

    # Further Help

    $ man brew-launchd

    $ bin/brew launchd --help

== How to rebase changes onto homebrew-master

* Get the launchd core changes for homebrew (until they merge it)

    brew update

    git config core.whitespace nowarn

    git remote add dreamcat4 git://github.com/dreamcat4/homebrew.git

    git fetch --no-tags dreamcat4 +issue-148-launchd:launchd-core-changes

    git rebase launchd-core-changes

== Usage

    $ brew launchd --help

    start service,(s)         Start launchd service(s)

                              Equivalent to launchctl load -w files...

                              Example  $ brew start dnsmasq memcached couchdb

    stop service,(s)          Stop launchd service(s)

                              Equivalent to launchctl unload -w files...

                              Example  $ brew stop mamcached dnsmasq

    restart service,(s)       Restart launchd service(s)

                              Example  $ brew restart couchdb

      --user                    At user login.

                                Otherwise, the default setting will be used.

                                Example  $ brew start --user openvpn ddclient

      --boot                    At boot time. Requires sudo/root privelidges.

                                Otherwise, the default setting will be used.

                                Example  $ sudo brew start --boot nginx mysql

    info [service,(s)]        Info for launchd service(s)

                              With no arguments prints info for all services.

                              Example  $ brew launchd info

    clean                     Clean missing/broken launchd service(s).

                               

                              Examples $ brew launchd clean

                                       $ sudo brew launchd clean

    default [--user|--boot]   Set the default target to start launchd services.

                              The initial setting, --user will start daemons at

                              user login - from the Loginwindow (not over ssh).

                               

                              Wheras --boot will set services to start at boot

                              time. But be aware that brew should be installed

                              to the root filesystem, not on a mounted volume.

                               

                              Examples $ brew launchd default --boot

                                       $ brew launchd default --user

    --help                    Show this message

    --version                 Print version information

== Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Dreamcat4. See LICENSE for details.