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NAME

flox-services-start - start services

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SYNOPSIS

flox [<general-options>] services start
     [-d=<path> | -r=<owner/name>]
     [<name>] ...

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DESCRIPTION

Starts the specified services. If any services are currently running, a warning will be displayed for each specified service that is already running, but the command will still succeed. If a specified service does not exist, an error will be displayed and no services will be started. If no services are currently running, then the services will be started from an ephemeral activation in order to use the most recent build of the environment. This may be different from the build of the environment that the current shell has activated, so the services and your shell may have different environment variables or values. To ensure that your shell and the services have the same environment, reactivate your environment after making edits to the manifest. A remote environment can only have a single set of running services, regardless of how many times the environment is activated concurrently.

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OPTIONS

<name>
The name(s) of the services to start.

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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>.

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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.

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EXAMPLES

Start a service named ‘server’: 
flox services start server
Start all services: 
flox services start
Attempt to start a service that doesn’t exist: 
$ flox services start myservice doesnt_exist
✘ ERROR: Service 'doesnt_exist' not found.
Attempt to start a service that is already running: 
$ flox services start running not_running
✔ Service 'not_running' started
⚠️  Service 'running' is already running

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SEE ALSO

flox-activate(1) flox-services-stop(1)