Interacting with the IPFS daemon running as a user LaunchAgent?

[adamavenir]

If I run the IPFS daemon as a "LaunchAgent" as described here, then start it as described, I see it show up:

➜  ~ launchctl list | grep ipfs
-   127 io.ipfs.go-ipfs

But if I run ipfs swarm peers, I get:

Error: This command must be run in online mode. Try running 'ipfs daemon' first.
Use 'ipfs swarm peers --help' for information about this command

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something about how this works. :)

[whyrusleeping]

Hrm... I wonder where the ipfs dir gets placed in that case. the CLI might not be looking in the same path as the launchctl manager.

cc @diasdavid @dignifiedquire who know more about OSX Mac OS Than I do

[dignifiedquire]

in theory it should work, but it might be tht the home directory detection fails. Try setting IPFS_PATH="./.ipfs" in the script explicitly (user based scripts run in the user home dir by default)

[fubar-coder]

I have the same problem. It seems that there is a problem when running under a different user account. My setup is as follows:

• Win 10
• Run as service as SYSTEM user (using Winsw)

Everything works as expected when I run ipfs daemon manually in one console window and the other commands in a different console.

Manually setting the IPFS_PATH works too.

[falehenrique]

I had the problem "Error: this command must be run in online mode. Try running 'ipfs daemon' first", because I try exec this with another user in terminal.

tks @fubar-coder