restart/stop/start only ever manage a process on the local host
(pgrep/systemctl are inherently local) -- pointing $URL at a server
running elsewhere, as a different account, does nothing useful there:
it just finds no local process and starts a brand-new one right here.
respawn instead POSTs /admin/restart to $URL over HTTP, same as the
GUI's "Restart process" button (client.reinit(mode="restart") ->
client.restart()) -- the server re-execs *itself* (os.execv, same
PID/user/host it already runs as), so this correctly reaches the real
process regardless of where the CLI is invoked from. -w polls /health
afterward until it reports ready with a new instance_id, mirroring
StatusServerClient.restart(wait=True)'s own timing.
Verified against a local fake HTTP server (no-wait, --wait, and the
connection-refused path) -- not against the real one, deliberately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
lemke_handClaude Sonnet 5
6acf6bd402