Homebrew service manager
If you have a Mac, there’s a chance you use Homebrew, the “missing package manager for OS X”.
It’s by far the best package manager I’ve used those years on OS X. Not to mention the fact that its based on git. Participating to the effort of creating as many packages as possible is as simple as submitting a PR on a simple ruby file.
For example here’s the “formula” for SonarQube that I contributed to.
On most unixes, alongside the package manager, there’s a tool to start daemon services, install and uninstall them. There was no such thing with Homebrew until brew services command was added.
brew services
$brew services
usage: [sudo] brew services [--help] <command> [<formula>]
Small wrapper around `launchctl` for supported formulae, commands available:
cleanup Get rid of stale services and unused plists
list List all services managed by `brew services`
restart Gracefully restart selected service
start Start selected service
stop Stop selected service
Options, sudo and paths:
sudo When run as root, operates on /Library/LaunchDaemons (run at boot!)
Run at boot: /Library/LaunchDaemons
Run at login: /Users/dgageot/Library/LaunchAgents
brew install sonar
brew services start sonar
brew install mongodb
brew services start mongodb
You got the pattern…