Foreman terminates immediately

Question

I recently installed OSX and Ubuntu on different computers. I then attempted to install redis and foreman for both OS\'s. Both errors threw no flags, and seemed

Answer 1

This one liner will kill any existing redis-servers and then start a new redis-server. When run in Foreman it doesn't send a SIGTERM which causes Foreman to quit, sending a SIGINT lets Foreman continue.

(ps aux | grep 6379 | grep redis | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -s SIGINT) && redis-server

In Procfile.dev:

redis: (ps aux | grep 6379 | grep redis | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -s SIGINT) && redis-server