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# flox services restart

## NAME

flox-services-restart - restart running services

## SYNOPSIS

```text theme={null}
flox [<general-options>] services restart
     [-d=<path> | -r=<owner/name>]
     [<name>] ...
```

## DESCRIPTION

Restarts the specified services.

If no services are specified, stops all running services and starts new
services using the latest build of the environment. If one or more
services are running, then the specified services are started using the
service config that the running services were started with.

When all services are restarted, they are started from an ephemeral
activation that uses the latest build of the environment. This may not
be the build of the environment that your shell has activated, so the
environment variables present for services may be different from the
ones in your shell. To ensure that your shell and the services have the
same environment, reactivate your environment after making edits to the
manifest.

An error is displayed if the specified service does not exist.

## OPTIONS

`<name>`\
The name(s) of the services to restart.

### Environment Options

If no environment is specified for an environment command, the
environment in the current directory or the active environment that was
last activated is used.

`-d`, `--dir`\
Path containing a .flox/ directory.

`-r`, `--reference`\
A FloxHub environment, specified in the form `<owner>/<name>`.

`-D`, `--default`\
Use your default environment (`<your-user>/default`). When
unauthenticated in an interactive context, you will be prompted to log
in. In non-interactive contexts (e.g., scripts or CI), this flag will
fail with an error when authentication is missing.

### General Options

`-h`, `--help`\
Prints help information.

The following options can be passed when running any `flox` subcommand
but must be specified *before* the subcommand.

`-v`, `--verbose`\
Increase logging verbosity. Invoke multiple times for increasing detail.

`-q`, `--quiet`\
Silence logs except for errors.

## EXAMPLES

Restart a single service:

```console theme={null}
$ flox services restart myservice
✔ Service 'myservice' restarted.
```

Restart all services:

```console theme={null}
$ flox services restart
✔ Service 'service1' restarted.
✔ Service 'service2' restarted.
✔ Service 'service3' restarted.
```

## SEE ALSO

[`flox-activate`](/man/flox-activate)