Update restart Nix command for macOS to include -k flag #1081
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Added a recommendation to use the -k flag when invoking launchctl kickstart to ensure that Nix is launched even if the daemon is already running.
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This PR adds a recommendation to use the
-kflag when invokinglaunchctl kickstartto ensure that the Nix daemon is launched even if it is already running.For context: while bootstrapping a new machine running MacOS today I ran into a small issue when setting up Nix + devenv. Specifically I installed Nix using the Determinate Systems installer then ran into an error when first running devenv since my user was not in the
trusted-userslist. When I used the suggested command I kept getting the same error since the Nix daemon had not actually been restarted which led me to try with the additional-kflag. I'm fairly new to MacOS, but from what I can tell on the launchctl docs this additional flag is required to actually restart the service.