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Nix/src/nix/daemon.md
Bryan Honof 736b9cede7
Port the flags of nix-daemon to nix daemon (#8788) 
The new `nix daemon` command didn't accept the same flags that `nix-daemon` did.

* docs(daemon): clarify the daemon trust override flags
* fix: change declaration order
* docs: add examples of nix daemon usage
* Apply suggestions from code review

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Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
Co-authored-by: tomberek <tomberek@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-08-28 13:43:34 +00:00

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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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