What's the difference between background and foreground commands?

[adriangcamacho]

Hi, any solution to run background commands in mac os?

[Russ]

@Adrián-González-Camacho, not yet. I didn't think many Mac users would want to use it. Do you want this feature so you can run commands while you're not logged on? Just curious what your use-case is.

[adriangcamacho]

@Russ I want to use my mac as a server and launch home automation commands

[Russ]

@adriangcamacho, I see. I assume you don't want to leave it logged in?

I'll have to research again how to create services that startup at boot time on a Mac.

[adriangcamacho]

@Russ Yep, thank you a lot for your time.
If you need some help i think i could help you i'm backend developer.

[TuneyLunes]

I'd also like to use my mac as an automation server and it would be easier to not have to be logged in permanently. Thanks @Russ !

[Russ]

@TuneyLunes, I haven't built this into the Mac agent yet, so for now you can use this method to setup the background agent on a Mac.

[Alê 滝口]

@Russ Could you give me an example of a command to run a script?

[Russ]

@Alê-滝口, if the computer is running Mac or Linux, the command could be:

~/yourscript.sh

That assumes you've created a script in your home directory called yourscript.sh.

If the computer is running Windows, the command could be:

c:\scripts\yourscript.bat

That assumes you created a c:\scripts folder, and put yourscript.bat in it.

[Alê 滝口]

@Russ thank you !!!