Persistent daemon

Default Behavior

By default on Linux systems, the dxflow daemon operates as a user service tied to your active login session. When you log out, the service automatically stops, preventing it from running persistently in the background.

Platform Support

The --daemon flag is supported on:

Starting the Daemon

# Start as background daemon
dxflow boot up --daemon

# Start with additional options
dxflow boot up --daemon --https --proxy

Enabling Persistence

To ensure the dxflow daemon service persists across user sessions and continues running after log out on Linux, enable user lingering:

sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER

This command allows your user services to start at boot time and remain active even when you're not logged in, effectively making them behave like system services while maintaining user-level permissions.

Managing the Daemon

Stop the daemon

dxflow boot down

Check daemon status

# SystemD (most Linux distributions)
systemctl status dxflow-engine

# OpenRC (Alpine, Gentoo)
rc-service dxflow-engine status

View daemon logs

# SystemD (stored in /tmp)
tail -f /tmp/dxflow.out
tail -f /tmp/dxflow.err

# OpenRC (stored in /var/log)
tail -f /var/log/dxflow-engine.out
tail -f /var/log/dxflow-engine.err