runner is a simple utility that will run a given command, then run forever and can be signalled to start/stop/restart the given command.

Motivation

This was mostly written as an exercise to play with rust, but it's also useful in docker-compose environments where you have a server that you may want to restart without shutting down the container.

Example:

1. runner serve app sleep 100000 # starts sleeping forever

from a different tab:

1. runner stop app # stops the sleep process
2. runner start app # starts the sleep process
3. runner start app # does nothing, because the sleep process is already running
4. runner restart app # stops and then starts the sleep process

Building

cargo build

Building Releases

Note: Releases must be built from x86_64-apple-darwin environments.

1. cargo bump --git-tag
2. bin/build-releases
3. git put --tag
4. go to github and create a release. Upload the binaries in releases/{version} to the release