Brew / Valet problem or challange

[rabol]

Hi

Using a mac, brew and valet seems to be a very good way of working, and for me it works very good, but...

Sometimes the command

brew cleanup

Fails, and based on discussions with the brew team, it looks like it's due to the way that valet starts the services

so recently I did a complete cleanup, meaning that I removed, php, nignx, dnsmasq, valet etc. and started over

I did then followed the installation: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/valet. I also installed redis, mailpit and supervisord.

I did do

valet trust

as I do not want to enter my password all the time whne using valet commands

Now, when I do this:

brew services ls

Name       Status    User  File
dnsmasq    error  2  root  ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
mailpit    started   rabol ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mailpit.plist
nginx      error  1  root  ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
php        error  78 root  ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php.plist
redis      started   rabol ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
supervisor started   rabol ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.supervisor.plist

as it can be seen, dnsmasq, nginx and php is running under root and that happens when issuing this:

valet install

In my daily work everythings seems to be working fine, but as mentioned the brew cleanupcommand fails as some things is now running as root

2 questions:

1. Why did valet run the dnsmasq, nginx and php as root?
2. How to fix it ?

Thanks

[drbyte]

Why did valet run the dnsmasq, nginx and php as root?

Those services run as root because they need to control ports and services that aren't accessible as non-root.