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Homebrew: How to start and stop background services

Posted on April 10, 2015January 3, 2021 by ivan.turkovic
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Anyone that has installed application running in the background from Homebrew, knows how to use launchctl that actually runs every application when the computer restarts. It is pretty straight forward task but most of the time you need to know the location of the .plist file that defines how to run it installed with homebrew.

Now there is a quicker path how to control them by simply adding following package to home-brew:

brew tap gapple/services
 And you have available to start, stop services directly from home-brew with following command to get a list of active services:
brew services list
So for example if you have installed postgresql you can start it as a background service with:
brew services start postgresql
or stop the service with
brew services stop postgresql

Which is much more easier and simpler than finding the right .plist file inside cellar folder of brew

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