A system for starting, stopping, and managing automated processes.
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How to stop an app from launching on Login?
I have created an app, that sets itself to launch at Login using SMLoginItemSetEnabled. Here is the code it uses. My question is, how can I manually remove this app from launching at login?
The app ...
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/etc/launchd.conf setenv value containing whitespace
In my /etc/launchd.conf file, I added these lines in an effort to figure out exactly how to create globally scoped environment variables whose values contain whitespace.
setenv foo1 123456
setenv ...
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Plist in /System/Library/LaunchAgents not loading on reboot
I have created the plist and placed it in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/. However, when I reboot my Mac it does not load like it is expected to. I am able to load it from the Terminal with launchctl ...
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How can I write to Notification Center from a launchd command?
I've got a plist set to run at a set interval, and have put it in /Library/LaunchDaemons like so:
/Library/LaunchDaemons $ ll macports_update_notifier.plist
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 55B 5 Sep ...
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Get current StartInterval status from Launchd
If a launchd job has a StartInterval of 600 and it's been "some time" since the plist was loaded.
How can one determine how much time remains until the next scheduled run?
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Launchd - Run as if you're logged in as a user using sudo
Is there a way to do this?
Basically I'm trying to run a script that needs to launch a program.
Putting the script in /Library/LaunchDaemons works fine, but everything gets run as if its the root ...
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launchd initiated process receiving signal 15 (TERM)
I've installed TotalFinder (a plugin, of sorts, for Finder) and it's randomly being killed off several times a day. I contacted the developer and he didn't have any ideas, but did say a quick google ...
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Dependencies for LaunchAgent so it mounts a bundle before other daemons run
I have following setup: I have a sparsebundle on an external disk containing steam (it wouldn't install on my internal disk - something about the format). But by now I depend on this approach as this ...
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Launchd starting a new process
I currently have a process that is running some shell scripts that then a call to an API. When it makes the calls, there might be like 10-15 seconds when the script is waiting for the external API to ...
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Opening an OS X disk image with a launchd agent while the display is sleeping
I created a launchd agent which opens a non-password-protected sparse disk image (and mounts its solitary volume) daily at 2:45AM in preparation for backup software to write to the volume. The launchd ...
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How can I shut down an unlisted php-fpm?
I have two installations of php on my machine.
One came with apache and is a 5.3 version, and I'm trying to use a 5.4 version with nginx.
I'd like to work on project using nginx, but I can't figure ...
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launchd crowds syslog with error-messages
I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 and have some problem with repeated error-messages crowding the
/var/log/system.log
file.
Apr 19 15:15:14 pc49 com.apple.launchd[1]: * process 1 exceeded ...
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How do I increase “ulimit -u” (max user processes)?
I can change all of the usual ulimits via (for instance) ulimit -n 8192 and launchctl limit maxfiles 8192 8192. Somehow, this doesn't seem to work for -u, the maximum number of user processes:
~$ ...
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Where's launchd.conf gone in Mountain Lion?
Or is this page outdated? As man launchd.conf still shows the man file as before.
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How can I delay loading of a launchd Launch Daemon on boot?
I am running OS X Server 10.7.5 on a Mac Mini and I cannot get MacPorts’ Apache2 to start on boot. I have ensured that the Apple-supplied version of Apache is not launching and I have also ensured ...
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Filter launchctl standard err/out to add timestamp to log messages
I have a Launch Daemon running, happily logging to a couple of files specified using the Standard(Error|Out)Path entries in the property list file.
Now, the problem is that the particular program ...
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Launch agents not lauching at system startup
I have several plist files in the folder ~/Library/LaunchAgents. They all have the same permissions but two of them (dotjs and pow) are not launching at login, even if they have the key RunAtLoad set ...
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A way to disable screen resolution change upon login?
I believe Mac OS X stores each user's screen resolution preferences and upon logging in OS X will set that user's resolution.
I actually want to disable this entire feature because I have a launchctl ...
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In Mountain Lion why do remote shells via ssh do NOT inherit the environment of the launchd parent process?
When logging in to my Mountain Lion Mac remotely via ssh I do not get the same PATH variable as when I open a shell locally: The local shell inherits its environment as expected from launchd and ...
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Is it possible to control specific behaviors of a launch daemon (system) on os x?
Is it possible to control specific behaviors of a launch daemon (system) on os x?
For example:
spotlight daemon (com.apple.spotlight.*) controls what do to when a spot light search is made.
-How ...
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Automating Python with launchd & permissions
I setup a Python script to run automatically using launchd (via a .plist)
I wanted this particular script to always run, whether a user was logged in or not, so I put the .plist that "launches" it ...
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Mountain Lion - Environment Variable is not being used
I am trying to set some environment variables in ML. To do so, I set following in my /etc/launchd.conf
sentenv FOG_PROVIDER 'AWS'
sentenv FOG_REGION 'us-west-1'
sentenv REDISTOGO_URL ...
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Is there a simple way for daemons and agents to communicate?
I've got a daemon that periodically checks for, and if applicable updates, some software (macports) and I'd like the user to get a GUI indication, using terminal-notifier, when that occurs.
Since ...
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TeamSpeak 3 server and launchd
So I followed the instructions on TeamSpeak forum itself.
Everybody there seem to put this to work, and I'm the only one who gets simply no result at all.
Since people in TeamSpeak forum are more ...
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How do I remove the updatetoolnotifier from launchctl?
Over a year ago I was working with the Glassfish app server. It apparently installed an "update notifier" that occasionally checks for updates and presents a dialog like this:
Since I'm no longer ...
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10.7 Launchd + rvm
This question fits somewhere between server fault, stackoverflow and askdifferent.
I am installing some web apps on my Lion server using webappctl, which hooks into apaches vhost configs to setup up ...
