Daemon and Status

Knot's background daemon owns persistent SSH connections, remote execution, SFTP, port forwarding, status queries, and connection cleanup. The CLI can auto-start the daemon when needed.

Daemon Commands

knot daemon [command]

Command	Description
knot daemon start	Start the daemon. Hidden shortcut: knot start.
knot daemon stop	Stop the daemon. Hidden shortcut: knot stop.
knot daemon restart	Restart the daemon. Hidden shortcut: knot restart.
knot daemon clear	Disconnect all active SSH connections held by the daemon. Hidden shortcut: knot clear.

knot daemon start supports:

Flag	Type	Default	Description
-f, --foreground	bool	false	Run the daemon in the foreground.

Examples:

knot daemon start
knot daemon start --foreground
knot daemon clear

Status

knot status
knot status --json

knot status shows daemon status and connection pool statistics. Use --json for scripts.

Logs

knot logs [flags]

Flag	Type	Default	Description
-t, --tail	int	100	Number of lines to show from the end of the log file.
-f, --follow	bool	false	Follow log output.

Examples:

knot logs
knot logs --tail=50
knot logs --tail=20 -f