MGS5004: this needs the persistent daemon
A command that HANDS OFF work - today magus run --detach and magus affected --detach -
was asked to do so with no persistent daemon to hand it to.
[MGS5004] --detach hands the work to the daemon, and none is running; start one with `magus server start`
see: .../MGS5004.md
Why
--detach does not fork a background copy of magus. It submits the run to the daemon and
returns the job id, so the work outlives your shell and you can watch it instead of
blocking on it.
That only holds for the daemon magus server start creates. magus also stands up a
short-lived proc server for ordinary commands, and that one exits when the command that
started it exits - so work submitted there is queued and then silently dropped. You would
be told the run detached, and nothing would ever run it.
Refusing is the only honest answer available. magus cannot promise the work will happen when the thing meant to do it is about to exit.
Fix
Start the daemon, then detach:
magus server start
magus run ci --detach
Watch the queued work with:
magus status --watch 15s
When you do not want a daemon
Drop --detach and run in the foreground. Every other magus command works with no daemon
at all; only handing work off requires one, because only handing work off needs something
still running afterwards to accept it.