lip daemon

Show or stop the daemon of lip.

Every lip command except lip daemon is carried out by the daemon: a lip process of your user that runs in the background. The first command starts it, and later commands reuse it; it exits by itself after it has had nothing to do for a while. You never need to start or stop it: a command behaves exactly as if lip carried it out itself, in your current directory, with your environment variables, reading your input and printing to your terminal, and Ctrl+C works as usual. See Internal Mechanism.

lip daemon status

lip daemon status [--json]

Shows whether the daemon runs, and if so its version and process ID. It never starts the daemon. With --json, prints {"running": false}, or {"running": true, "version": "<version>", "pid": <process ID>}.

lip daemon stop

lip daemon stop

Asks the daemon to exit and waits until it has. If the daemon is carrying out a command, such as a lip run whose server is running, or runs a managed server (see lip run --managed), it keeps running and lip daemon stop fails; stop the managed servers, then run it again once the commands have ended. If no daemon runs, it does nothing.

The daemon does not exit by itself while it runs a managed server, and a newer lip keeps using it for lip run --managed until its managed servers have stopped.