Launches the llmster daemon in the background via the CLI. This is required
in headless environments (such as Linux servers) before loading models or
starting the local server.
Details
If the CLI exits with a status other than 0, the function aborts. The
message gives the exit code and quotes what the CLI wrote, after "The CLI
said:". The quoted text is the stderr text, or the stdout text if stderr
holds only whitespace and escape codes. A byte that is not valid UTF-8 shows as <xx>,
its hex value. ANSI escape codes, such as color codes, cursor codes, and
terminal links, are removed, and each run of whitespace becomes one space.
A text longer than 1000 characters keeps at most its last 1000
characters, after "…".
Desktop Users
On desktop operating systems (macOS and Windows), running this command may actually launch the LM Studio desktop application to act as the backend engine. If the GUI is already open, this function will simply detect the active instance and return successfully. While safe to use, desktop users generally do not need to call this function and can just open the application manually.