# balenaEngine daemon running?

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon-running/58027>\
**Category:** balenaEngine\
**Created:** [January 19, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon-running/58027 "2020-01-19T20:13:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon-running/58027/1 "2020-01-19T20:13:21Z")

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Is there a way for me to restart the balenaEngine on device 95cd34fb34796fa7b837c9341d2f0ac3 or is that something only support can do?

```auto
\root@fade81efc095:/usr/src/app# error during connect: Get http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fbalena-engine.sock/v1.39/exec/4ab76342bd7af587fcd1bc9413b22a9515ff974d23967eca41f8fd70214f480e/json: write unix @->/var/run/balena-engine.sock: write: broken pipe
Cannot connect to the balenaEngine daemon at unix:///var/run/balena-engine.sock. Is the balenaEngine daemon running?
SSH session disconnected
SSH reconnecting...
Spawning shell...

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