From 06c9dd2d9cd2448363403280fdebd399719537da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: enigma0Z <6117628+enigma0Z@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:50:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] ignore pid files

---
 .gitignore | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bdba4d6..a87ceca 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -22,4 +22,6 @@ start-all.sh
 **/.venv*/
 **/dist/
 
-**/*.bak
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+**/*.bak
+
+**/*.pid
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From 8454b82d894416727e60e9da2040457ba62bbd71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: enigma0Z <6117628+enigma0Z@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:50:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Add run.sh, remove screen run mode

---
 run.sh   |  3 +++
 start.sh | 13 ++-----------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 run.sh

diff --git a/run.sh b/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cba9ad8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+uv --project api run mmh "$@"
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diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index 7b7511c..a74c226 100755
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -5,22 +5,13 @@ DEV="false"
 API_PORT=""
 WEB_PORT=""
 
-if [[ "$1" == "screen" ]]; then
-  SCREEN="true"; shift
-  API_PORT="$1"; shift
-fi
-
 if [[ "$1" == "dev" ]]; then
   DEV="true"; shift
   API_PORT="$1"; shift
   WEB_PORT="$1"; shift
 fi
 
-if [[ "$SCREEN" == "true" ]]; then
-  set -x
-  screen -dmS mmh-api-$API_PORT uv --project api run mmh start --listen-port $API_PORT "$@"
-  set +x
-elif [[ "$DEV" == "true" ]]; then
+if [[ "$DEV" == "true" ]]; then
   WEB_PID=""
   API_PID=""
   cleanup() {
@@ -47,5 +38,5 @@ elif [[ "$DEV" == "true" ]]; then
   wait $API_PID 
   wait $WEB_PID
 else
-  uv --project api run mmh start "$@"
+  ./run.sh start "$@"
 fi

From e56adf6b5a35133d7ea8c4fd5cb4459ee6fd6235 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: enigma0Z <6117628+enigma0Z@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:51:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Update help for pid file arg

---
 api/src/makemkv_headless/models/config.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/api/src/makemkv_headless/models/config.py b/api/src/makemkv_headless/models/config.py
index 4b20e3b..f08c6a5 100644
--- a/api/src/makemkv_headless/models/config.py
+++ b/api/src/makemkv_headless/models/config.py
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class ConfigModel(BaseModel):
     cli_argument=CliArgument(
       args=['--pid-file'],
       kwargs=ParserKwargs(
-        help="The path to the file to store the pid (if --daemon is used)"
+        help="The path to the pid file (if --daemon is/was used)"
       )
     )
   ).model_dump())

From 35ff2b667dc6ed2f9e9f4621026bb3101aa14b17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: enigma0Z <6117628+enigma0Z@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:51:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] [minor] Add status subcommand

---
 api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/__init__.py      |  2 +-
 .../cli/subcommands/status.py                 | 51 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/subcommands/status.py

diff --git a/api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/__init__.py b/api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/__init__.py
index 9e387a8..c3a6900 100644
--- a/api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 
 from makemkv_headless.cli.subcommands import (
-  find_duplicate_media, start, stop
+  find_duplicate_media, start, stop, status
 )
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diff --git a/api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/subcommands/status.py b/api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/subcommands/status.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c4269e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/makemkv_headless/cli/subcommands/status.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+
+from argparse import Namespace
+from signal import SIGTERM
+from sys import argv
+
+from os import SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END, kill, unlink
+from os.path import basename, exists
+
+from makemkv_headless.cli.parsers import subparsers
+from makemkv_headless.config import CONFIG
+
+def main(opts: Namespace):
+  CONFIG.load(opts)
+
+  try:
+    with open(CONFIG.pid_file, 'r') as pid_file:
+      pid = int(pid_file.readline())
+    kill(pid, 0)
+    print('Status: Running')
+    if opts.tail_log is not None and exists(CONFIG.log_file):
+      with open(CONFIG.log_file, 'rb') as log_file:
+        num_lines = 10
+        log_file.seek(-2, SEEK_END)
+        try:
+          while (num_lines > 0):
+            if (log_file.read(1) == b'\n'):
+              num_lines -= 1
+
+            log_file.seek(-2, SEEK_CUR)
+        except OSError:
+          pass
+          
+        log_file.seek(2, SEEK_CUR)
+        tail_lines = ''.join([line.decode() for line in log_file.readlines()])
+        print('---')
+        print(tail_lines)
+  except ProcessLookupError:
+    print(f'Status: Stopped')
+  except FileNotFoundError:
+    print(f'Could not locate pid file {CONFIG.pid_file}')
+
+parser = subparsers.add_parser('status', help='Display status of the configured makemkv headless')
+parser.set_defaults(func=main)
+
+CONFIG.initialize_parser(parser, ['config_file', 'pid_file'])
+parser.add_argument(
+  '--tail-log', '-t', 
+  nargs=1,
+  metavar='TAIL_LINES',
+  help='Print this many log lines from the configured log file'
+)
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