How to run task in background

[iilyak]

I am using alfred to start development environment. My development environment includes few long running processes which need to stay running after alfred start finishes. I am sure I am doing something wrong.

I am trying to do something like the following

start:
  tasks:
    task1
    task2

task1:
  command: echo task1

task2:
  command: alfred -no-formatting task3 &

task3:
  command: sleep 100 && echo task3

[iilyak]

following worked

test:
  tasks:
    task1
    task2

task1:
  command: echo task1

task2:
  command: nohup alfred -no-formatting task3 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
  exit: 0

task3:
  command: sleep 100 && echo task3

[iilyak]

Now I need to invent a way to implement stop command. Probably would have to rely on a pid file.

[kcmerrill]

Just curious but why do you want to run it in the background?

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Now I need to invent a way to implement stop command. Probably would have to rely on a pid file.

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[kcmerrill]

There are a bunch of other considerations that you might need to account for. Either way, you can use nohop for example, or check out another tiny project of mine kj on my GitHub repos.

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Just curious but why do you want to run it in the background?

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Now I need to invent a way to implement stop command. Probably would have to rely on a pid file.

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[iilyak]

I ended up using nohop to start process and pgrep -f "alfred -no-formatting task_namepwd". By passing pwd I can make sure I reliably find the pid of a running process.