Warning
This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.
Name
nix daemon
- daemon to perform store operations on behalf of non-root clients
Synopsis
nix daemon
[option...]
Examples
-
Run the daemon:
# nix daemon
-
Run the daemon and listen on standard I/O instead of binding to a UNIX socket:
# nix daemon --stdio
-
Run the daemon and force all connections to be trusted:
# nix daemon --force-trusted
-
Run the daemon and force all connections to be untrusted:
# nix daemon --force-untrusted
-
Run the daemon, listen on standard I/O, and force all connections to use Nix's default trust:
# nix daemon --stdio --default-trust
Description
This command runs the Nix daemon, which is a required component in
multi-user Nix installations. It runs build tasks and other
operations on the Nix store on behalf of non-root users. Usually you
don't run the daemon directly; instead it's managed by a service
management framework such as systemd
on Linux, or launchctl
on Darwin.
Note that this daemon does not fork into the background.
Options
-
Use Nix's default trust.
-
Force the daemon to trust connecting clients.
-
Force the daemon to not trust connecting clients. The connection will be processed by the receiving daemon before forwarding commands.
-
Forces the daemon to process received commands itself rather than forwarding the commands straight to the remote store.
This is useful for the `mounted-ssh://` store where some actions need to be performed on the remote end but as connected user, and not as the user of the underlying daemon on the remote end.
-
Attach to standard I/O, instead of trying to bind to a UNIX socket.
Logging-related options
-
Set the logging verbosity level to 'debug'.
-
--log-format
formatSet the format of log output; one of
raw
,internal-json
,bar
orbar-with-logs
. -
--print-build-logs
/-L
Print full build logs on standard error.
-
Decrease the logging verbosity level.
-
--verbose
/-v
Increase the logging verbosity level.
Miscellaneous global options
-
Show usage information.
-
Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.
-
--option
name valueSet the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding
nix.conf
). -
Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
-
Show version information.
Note
See
man nix.conf
for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.