sourcegraph/thyme

Question: how to run thyme as a daemon for OSX?

alok opened this issue · 7 comments

alok commented

^The question title. I'm running OSX 10.11.6, to be specific.

alexyorke commented

I usually just stick it in a screen session and then detach screen.

So for example I'd execute screen, hit enter, type while true; do thyme track -o thyme.json; sleep 30s; done;, enter, ctrl-a d and then you can close terminal and it'll run in the background. I'd like to know if there's a nicer way to do that though.

alok commented

I just use nohup right now, but I'd prefer a proper daemon that restarts
itself.
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I usually just stick it in a screen session and then detach screen.

So for example I'd execute screen, hit enter, type while true; do thyme
track -o thyme.json; sleep 30s; done;, enter, ctrl-a d and then you can
close terminal and it'll run in the background. I'd like to know if there's
a nicer way to do that though.

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beyang commented

I don't use OS X as my primary dev environment, but we'd love to accept a PR for this functionality if anyone has a setup that works for them right now

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orschiro commented

I have the same question. I use Ubuntu 16.10. As far as I can tell, there is no daemon available on Linux either, correct?

I need to use the following command to run Thyme in the background, correct?

while true; do thyme track -o thyme.json; sleep 30s; done;

beyang commented

Correct. There probably should be a daemon, but I haven't gotten around to writing it.

mediapathic commented

I think on OSX this should be possible with launchctl / launchd. launchd is intensely oblique and weird unless you are used to editing plists, I recommend Lingon (easy to use but costs 10€), LaunchControl (free but I've never gotten it to work reliably), or some other assistance. There's an informative page here if you feel like fighting with it longer than I did.

beyang commented

Thanks for the tip! At the moment, I don't have enough spare time to actively work on this project, but I welcome pull requests!