mac homebrew启动服务

you can install the soft with brew install softname

eg：brew install mysql

or search soft with  brew search softname

eg: brew search mysql

these services will install at /usr/local/opt

In OS X， these services are represented by files ending with .plist. these plists are usually stored in either ~/Library/LaunchAgents or  /Library/LaunchAgents.

for example:

you can load mysql as followed：

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mysql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

Or, if you don't want launchctl, you can just run:

mysql.server start

Doing all that takes too long, and I can never remember where Homebrew plists are. Fortunately, Homebrew includes a lovely interface for managing this without using ln,  launchctl or knowing where plists are.

brew services 

here is an example usage:

➜    brew services start mysql

==> Successfully started `mysql` (label: homebrew.mxcl.mysql)

you can restart it like this:

brew services restart mysql

or stop it:

brew services stop mysql

now, let's see evey service we've loaded:

brew services list

Name  Status  User       Plist

mysql started xiezhenjia /Users/xiezhenjia/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

redis started xiezhenjia /Users/xiezhenjia/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

if there is some unusable plist you can run  brew services cheanup to remove them.