Questions tagged [launchd]
A system for starting, stopping, and managing automated processes.
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How can I get `at` to execute `say`? Currently getting Open speech channel failed: -915
I'm on Monterey. I have enabled atrun, and it works. But when I do this:
$ at now + 1 minute
say "hello"
<C-d>
at -l lists the job, but when the time comes, it doesn't speak, and I ...
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Running Launchd Services with Non Root User on macOS
I am building a launchctl service which can run a java service. I am able to create launchctl service with root user and test start/stop/status/automatic start at reboot use cases.
I am struggling ...
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How can I automatically kill sshfs on sleep? [duplicate]
I'm regularly using sshfs to mount a remote filesystem on my MacBook. However, sshfs doesn't survive when I close the lid of the laptop and open it again. Instead, all internet connections are blocked ...
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What is morphunassetsupdaterd?
I haven't noticed this process earlier.
Process: morphunassetsupdaterd [2684]
Path: /usr/libexec/morphunassetsupdaterd
Load Address: 0x105960000
Identifier: ...
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How to `launchctl` start a daemon for testing? (without loading it, so if the device restart, it does not reload it)
For loading temporally a daemon, without it to be reloaded the next start, I was used to:
$ sudo launchctl start ./myplist.plist
However, this doesn't seems to work anymore (or maybe id never did, ...
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sudo: launchctl: command not found
I am trying to start my music app, both launched and playing, and a few other tasks, at a certain time. I wrote an applescript that runs after my vpn connects, so I know the apple script is good.
I ...
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launchctl: Unrecognized target specifier
I think that at one point in the past I disabled my media keys using the instructions provided in this answer. I am trying to re-enable them, but upon using the command:
launchctl bootstrap "gui/$...
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How to schedule and run a cron/launchctl job that will wake computer if asleep
I have a script that performs a backup of my PhD data using rsync. The rsync is performed between my laptop and a home server I have running. The broad idea here is that I normally use my server to ...
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Automatic app relaunch via `launchd` causes flash of second menu bar app icon
I'm using a launchd script found here to automatically re-launch an app if the app crashes:
Automatically relaunch a closed macOS application
The app has a menu bar icon. After running that script ...
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Automatically relaunch VirtualBox VM when it crashes
Is there some way to automatically relaunch a VirtualBox VM if it happens to crash?
My VM occasionally crashes and has to be relaunched which I can do manually when I'm at my computer, but I'd like ...
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How to disable a broken brew service?
For the moc music player I have installed jack and started it as a service with:
brew services start jack
This causes jack to be startet at login. It works for moc, but unfortunately it seems that ...
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How to set default nice value for a particular process that is started by launchd?
I want to set the custom priority level (i.e. nice) to a particular program as the default priority level. The tricky thing is that the process is not started by me but by background processes not ...
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Why do I have to keep reloading the SSH daemon?
This on a 2017 iMac running Big Sur (11.6) with OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3.
I sometimes have a need to log in to this machine remotely. I have forwarded the port appropriately.
But, sometimes I get ...
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How can I run `launchctl asuser` over a SSH session?
I am SSH'ing into my Mac and I want to get the value of SSH_AUTH_SOCK from launchctl.
Normally, I would do that like this:
% launchctl getenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK
However, when you SSH into your Mac, this ...
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Running a daemon before a .app program is invoked and shut it down after the app has been closed
I am using Cisco AnyConnect for connecting to client VPN which relies on a set of agents and daemons.
Because I don't like daemons running when not needed, especially the ones related to networking, I ...
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macOS Big Sur 11.6 Stocks app opens autonomously and I don't know why
The Stocks app on my iMac opens (apparently) on its own, in the background, multiple times per day. The only info I can find is from syslog:
Oct 19 11:05:03 myHostname com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: ...
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Launch Daemon to keep me logged out between certain times
I'm currently trying to figure out how to better control the time I spend on my laptop in the evenings, but for reasons I'll spare you, I'm not having a lot of success. I'm finding that the OSx ...
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Want to remove filevault prompt on shutdown/reboot
Whenever I'm logged in as a certain user and trigger a shutdown or restart, I get prompted to enable filevault. I have searched everywhere to find the hook that causes this prompt, but I can't find ...
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Launch applications at login only for specific user, not shown in "Login Items"
To summarize, I want to make applications that launch at login launch only for specific user. They are not shown in 'Login Items' in System Preferences, but in /Library/LaunchAgents/ and /Library/...
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Cannot remove GT8P3H7SPW.com.mcafee.CMF.networkextension service from launchd
ref: Consent needed to enable ENSM Firewall 10.7.5 and later
This system extension was left over from a McAfee LiveSafe install that I had removed using the provided uninstaller.
I had to disable it ...
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launchDaemon choose shared file location that doesn't require full disk access
I've got an mach-o executable that runs from launchDaemon plist file, and is communicating with other processes using unix domain socket. The file that backs this socket created in /tmp.
However, this ...
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Enabling Keyboard Media Key Events on MacOS
Environment: Fresh Install of MacOS 11.1
I wanted to disable Apple Music / iTunes from responding to keyboard media keys (previous, pause, start) so I ran the following line through launchctl:
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Enable/load .plist issue after Big Sur update
I've spent the last day googling this issue and can't get it figured out. Apparently, Big Sur treats load and unload as legacy and you are supposed to use enable and disable however I've tried many ...
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How to execute rc.local at boot
Found this in an old threat. But it did not work as described here. What I want to do in the end is to start my own daemon from rc.local. I am running OSX 11.5.2.
So I created the file
ls -l /Library/...
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plist not running properly after restart
I wrote a worker service that listens for changes in the folder using a filesystemwatcher with C#. After copying the files to a Mac, I created a script and plist file. After running the code below, ...
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How do I make a LaunchAgent load at log in (via Lock Screen Hot Corner)
What I want to do
Load a LaunchAgent at log in, including logging in after locking my screen or the display goes to sleep.
What my problem is
My LaunchAgent loads when I log in after booting my Mac, ...
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Reverse SSH Tunnel: Connection Refused
I have a couple of Raspberry Pies at my condo to which I log in from my home iMac via reverse SSH tunnels. Generally, this works fine.
However, if the Internet goes down at the condo and is ...
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apple-xsrvr-admin service loading on startup
Not sure why this service is loading on startup, I tried tracing through the port:
lsof -i :port
Tells me it's listening:
*:dec_dlm (LISTEN)
Trying to trace back the launch daemon for the service in ...
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Run Shell Scripts on a Schedule
Is there "a right" way to run shell scripts on a schedule in modern versions of MacOS? My usual go to for this has been using the cron command -- but recent changes make seem like this isn'...
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All apps crash on click/opening
Seeming randomly all applications start to crash. Sometimes after days. This includes Finder and even the Menubar. I've been trying to debug this problem, but so far with no success. Even a full ...
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launchctl dumpstate won't give full dump
launchctl dumpstate is giving me exactly 20mb of data then just exits in the middle of a service description:
inherited environment = {
PATH => /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
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How Do I Create a Custom Guest User?
I have a mac that will be used by myself (admin) and a few other people (second account). I don't want data to persist between logins on this second account, similar to how the Guest Account works. ...
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How to dynamically add anchors on startup for apple pfctl without editing system pf.conf
There are a few answers on using pfctl on os x, but none really give a nice clean way to make an anchor and have it loaded on startup, or to allow programs to hook in and dynamically update / replace ...
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Hiding default folders via launchagent: not applying to documents
Bit of an odd one. Our organisation needs to allow some aspect of local storage access to accommodate work on large files without constantly writing to network drives. They work on these files and ...
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How to disable mDNS correctly?
I work for a company and they asked me to disabled this mDNS for all the Macs.
I've tried:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSresponder.plist
Result:
Unload failed: ...
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Using launchd to run script once a day when logged in
I'm in the situation where I would like to run a script only once per day when I open my MacBook.
I guess I could have the script note the date it was last run, and have it reject when run on the ...
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"fs_snapshot_create: Operation not permitted" when trying to generate new system snapshot on M1 Mac
I follow the instructions in How can I edit "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.nfsd.plist" In Catalina? but failed in generate and tag new APFS System Snapshot.
/System/Library/...
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Disabling Notification Center in macOS Big Sur 11.4
I absolutely hate the Notification Center in macOS. I had successfully turned it off permanently in an earlier version of Big Sur by executing the following commands in the Terminal, followed by a ...
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Give the Terminal.app Full Disk permission problem even it is given
macOS: v 11.2.3
Chip Apple M1
I have given the Full Disk Access to Terminal and iTerm.
But when I run a Bash script to clean up the Trash directory I get "Give the Terminal.app Full Disk ...
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Alter ulimit for Terminal without changing kernel parameters
Note: I am looking for an answer for Catalina and for Big Sur. The commands below were run on Catalina. Most related questions and answers are for older versions of macOS which work a bit differently, ...
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Launchd job doesn't run at specified interval
I had a launchd job where the StartInterval is set to 10800 (seconds), however, the job actually ran at a rather short interval like 5 seconds, and I couldn't figure out why.
Here's the job definition:...
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pfctl: Duplicate signature for
What would cause pfctl to output a bunch of errors regarding duplicate signatures to stderr when run as a daemon using launchd under /Library/LaunchDaemons, but not when run manually from Terminal?
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How can I return the logged in user from inside a pkg which is running as root?
I'm using the Packages app to create an installer which includes, among other things, a launchd job.
The postinstall Bash script needs to target the logged in user as follows:
launchctl bootstrap gui/$...
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ulimit -n shows different values in mac terminal and intellij terminal
I have tried increasing the max open files limit in mac by running the following command
sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 524288 10485760
When I try running ulimit -n it shows 524288
But while running ...
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trigger script when a launch agent/daemon is stopped
Is there a way to trigger a script when a launch agent is stopped? Similar to ExecStopPost in linux with sysmtemd.
I want to run a teardown script when a launch agent is stopped
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Restart CoreAudio... to fix Safari problems?! Why?
On my M1 Macbook Pro (2020) running Big Sur 11.3.1, I've found that I need to restart CoreAudio to solve seemingly unrelated problems. For example:
Safari will stop rendering content... Safari is ...
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lsd and tccd hogging CPU, launchd getting killed, backupd crashing often
The last couple of days, my Mac (OS 10.14.6 Mojave) has had two daemon processes running hard and hot: lsd (launch service) and tccd (which apparently manages which apps have permission to access ...
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How can I make a LaunchDaemon run an app at login?
I have an internally-maintained macOS app for my macOS Catalina-based enterprise environment which:
Must run as root (it accesses a privileged device API)
Runs in the background without a UI (via ...
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Stop malware from being executed by launchd
I've got this program running on my computer, /var/root/Library/Application Support/.SectionChannel.dp/SectionChanneldd, which Norton has identified as the malware OSX.Malcol. However, Norton has ...
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How to figure out how a process auto started itself after login?
(I added an Update in the end.)
My related questions:
How to delete hidden login iterms from backgrounditems.btm?
A launchd job without plist file, how does that work and how to find what job ...
