Homebrew Service

Integrates Homebrew formulae with macOS' launchctl manager.


Homebrew is used for installing the services.

This does not work with Linuxbrew (so don't file Linux issues, please).

brew services is automatically installed when run.

Start the MySQL service at login with:

brew services start mysql

Start the Dnsmasq service at boot with:

$ sudo brew services start dnsmasq

Start all available services with:

$ brew services start --all

Run the MySQL service but don't start it at login (nor boot) with:

$ brew services run mysql

Stop the MySQL service with:

$ brew services stop mysql

Restart the MySQL service with:

$ brew services restart mysql

List all services managed by brew services with:

$ brew services list

Remove all unused services with:

$ brew services cleanup

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