mockra

If you’re like me, you likely have a long list of homebrew packages installed. You most likely also have quite a few running through launchd. Starting, stopping, and restarting these packages has likely been a cumbersome process. Luckily, there’s an easy solution to your problem in Homebrew Services.

You can install homebrew services by running:

  brew tap homebrew/services

The first thing you’ll want to do from there is see a list of currently running services, which can be done by running:

  brew services list

Here’s an example of the ouput:

  mysql        stopped
  postgresql   started username LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
  redis        started username LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
  rethinkdb    stopped

Now that I have homebrew service, I can start mysql by running:

  brew services start mysql

If I wanted to stop running redis, I could do that with:

  brew services stop redis

Homebrew services also comes with a handy utility for cleaning up stale services and unused plists.

  brew services cleanup