As it says in the title, "Can't quit app launched through launchd"—or more precisely, I can quit it, but it then automatically restarts again.
Background: I prefer to use BusyCal, not iCal, but there are some calendar-ish things that have to be done by iCal before BusyCal can get the results. I figured I'd create two launchd scripts: one to launch iCal every day at 5 am, and another to quit it a few minutes later.
Here's the plist to launch (in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.dori.iCalLaunch.plist
):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<false/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.dori.iCalLaunch</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<true/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal</string>
</array>
<key>ServiceDescription</key>
<string>iCal Launcher</string>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>5</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
My understanding was that I didn't need the KeepAlive
and OnDemand
keys, but I put them in anyway to try to stop the relaunching.
Here's the plist to quit (in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.dori.iCalQuit.plist
):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.dori.iCalQuit</string>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/usr/bin/osascript</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>osascript</string>
<string>-e</string>
<string>tell application "iCal" to quit</string>
</array>
<key>ServiceDescription</key>
<string>iCal Quitter</string>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>5</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>10</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
Based on my log files, they both run just fine—but after the Quit runs, iCal relaunches.
Any ideas for things to try, or things that might be causing this?