Nix/src/nix/daemon.md

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Examples

• Run the daemon:

  # nix daemon
  

• Run the daemon and listen on standard I/O instead of binding to a UNIX socket:

  # nix daemon --stdio
  

• Run the daemon and force all connections to be trusted:

  # nix daemon --force-trusted
  

• Run the daemon and force all connections to be untrusted:

  # nix daemon --force-untrusted
  

• Run the daemon, listen on standard I/O, and force all connections to use Nix's default trust:

  # nix daemon --stdio --default-trust
  

Description

This command runs the Nix daemon, which is a required component in multi-user Nix installations. It runs build tasks and other operations on the Nix store on behalf of non-root users. Usually you don't run the daemon directly; instead it's managed by a service management framework such as systemd on Linux, or launchctl on Darwin.

Note that this daemon does not fork into the background.

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