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i'm running mongo 1.8.2 and trying to see how to cleanly shut it down on Mac. on our ubuntu servers i can shutdown mongo cleanly from the mongo shell with: > use admin > db.shutdownServer() ...
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I want to run a unison sync service running in the background whenever I login. But the status code of my agent is 78. I don't know why, I tried some fix posted online, but it just doesn't work. What'...
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I'm trying to improve Hudson CI for iOS and start Hudson as soon as system starts up. To do this I'm using the following launchd script: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE ...
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I want to have my computer set its volume to a specific level every night at 11:45 PM. I'm running OSX 10.11.4. I can set the volume manually through terminal with osascript -e "set Volume 1.7" or ...
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I recently installed Jenkins, using Homebrew. I also installed Mercurial using Homebrew. I can successfully clone an hg repo just fine - from Terminal. But if I try and do the same thing as part of a ...
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I have some launchd scripts from Homebrew. However I have to manually run them when I restart my computer: launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mysql.mysqld.plist <?xml version="1.0&...
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I have installed postgresql via HomeBrew. It worked but today I find that postgresql server does not run when computer start. I try to use launchctl to load it again with below command: $ launchctl ...
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I'm trying to figure out why my launchd script is not working. It is extremely simple, but I am new to the mac environment and trying to get accustomed. Here's my plist. I know ProgramArguments is ...
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Is it possible to know the .plist file location which is loaded by the launchctl command? The label name is listed with launchctl list and its contents can be viewed by launchctl list LABEL, but I ...
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My programs run out of memory like half of the time I run them. Under Linux I can set a hard limit to the available memory using ulimit -v mem-in-kbytes. Actually, I use ulimit -S -v mem-in-kbytes, so ...
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I configured the launchd to start a command at 18pm every day on my mac pro,but it was not working. I want to check if the launchd has run the command. I tried the system console, found no anything ...
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We have a problem with updating a helper tool with SMJobBless that has been puzzling us for days now. We are developing an application for which at some point we need to perform administrative tasks (...
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I have a script for launchd to run that starts a server, then tells it to exit gracefully when launchd kills it off (which should be at shutdown). My question: what is the appropriate, idiomatic way ...
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I've been trying to find out the meaning of LimitLoadToSessionType in launchctl on OS X (Lion). After scouring the internet, it seems the value can be one of: Aqua, LoginWindow, Background, ...
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Our Jenkins CI build server is set up on a Mac Mini running OSX Lion (10.7.3), and I'm having trouble getting it to sign the iOS builds so they can be uploaded to to TestFlight. The process is ...
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On OS X Yosemite (10.10), is there any way to remove the enabled/disabled override setting for a service? For example, to permanently disable non-existent service 'test' for root, do this: sudo ...
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I'm working with launchd to run some automated tasks, and I was wondering what the difference is between 'Day' and 'Weekday'. According to http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1361809 ...
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I've got a program that runs as a launchd agent, and I have stdout and stderr sent to a log file using the StandardErrorPath and StandardOutputPath keys. I'm quite keen on having stdout/stderr logged ...
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I want to start up a file with .sh type or .py on mac os x without using root , I searched in google and found launchctl can help me , so i read tutorial and do same in tutorial but it not work for ...
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My question is how to make a MacOSX daemon process using launchd start with root privileges automatically after a reboot? I'm writing an application for in house use that blocks access to web sites. ...
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I need to be able to start/stop a per-session GUI agent from a root level daemon. Similar issues are discussed here, here and here. What I want to be able to do is basically for num in `ps ax | ...
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I'm trying to get a script to run every day at the same time to restart a Mac. I cannot use the built in schedule feature in the energy saving preference panel because I have apps running that prevent ...
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I have found that the launchctl sub commands like load/ unload listed in legacy sub commands on mac os x 10.10. So my question is how to launchctl to load/unload demons present at /Library/...
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Does anybody know what does that error code mean? I get SMJobBless error with this return code value. Failed to bless helper: Error Domain=CFErrorDomainLaunchd Code=9 "The operation couldn’t be ...
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I'm a Linux user that just recently got a mac. I'm trying to set up my IDE and found out that Macs don't use .bashrc / .bash_profile / etc. for GUI apps. So, if you have a GUI app that needs an ...
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I've created a plist file in the /Library/LaunchDaemon/ The computer on which it runs cannot be restarted (server thing), it's running MacOS Tiger. I expected the following command to do the job, but ...
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I'm new in Mac OS X world but I have skills on Windows dev. I need to develop a daemon (on Windows will be Windows Service) that uploads/downloads files from a Web Service. My question is: is it ...
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Do you know how to remove restriction on binding to ports < 1024 with a user account that is not root on Mac OS X?
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I have a daemon process started via launchd. This will be running even during DarkWake and has no time to finish before OS X goes back to sleep again. I can think of the following solutions, but ...
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I am trying to write a launchd.plist file for my node server. I am using forever to run my node server. I would like the server to start on boot. I would also like to wait for the mongodb launchd ...
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I experimenting with pm2, which is a process manager for node.js applications. I tried their pm2 startup utility which generates and installs a startup script for pm2 when the system restarts. I ...
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We have a Launch Daemon which (necessarily, for various reasons) runs as root, and which communicates with a server component via the network. It needs to authenticate with the service, so when it ...
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I am running release version of the app on the iPhone, it works fine. There is no error messages in the XCode debugger: Running… Switching to thread 11779 Switching to thread 11779 sharedlibrary apply-...
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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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Something that I've noticed recently on two different machines is that Apache2 installed via MacPorts seems to have stopped launching when I boot up. The honest truth is that I can't swear it did so ...
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Microsoft has defined the IHostLifetime interface for WorkerServices to run as services on different platforms. (You can create a Worker Service project with dotnet new worker in the console). If you ...
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I'm working on an OS X app that most users choose to "launch at login", the kind you'd find at the menu bar. In order to launch it at login I'm using SMLoginItemSetEnabled to launch a LoginHelper app ...
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When an application process launches an XPC helper process, it doesn't actually do the fork()/exec() itself in the classic UNIX style. Instead, it sends a message to launchd, which does the dirty work ...
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I am starting to work with launchd and want to set up a plist file such that whenever I insert an SD card into my Mac mini server (with Snow Leopard Server), I want a shell script to run (which should ...
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I have been setting up a launchd.plist XML that is run every time a specific USB device is mounted. I followed the instructions on the xpc_events(3) man page and it is running the application whenever ...
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I have a bash script that I would like to run with a launchd plist file on OS X. The problem I have is is that the bash script contains sudo commands and it is stopping it from running. So for example ...
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I have a launchd per-user agent. In it's .plist, I would like to use the $HOME environment variable. Is it possible? (it is the "Program" key, which I would like to define as "$HOME/bin/myscript")
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I can't find CFErrorDomainLaunchd in any of the headers. I used the find command to grep every header file in the 10.11 SDK. I also tried google: site:opensource.apple.com CFErrorDomainLaunchd ...
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I've read the following manual pages on launchd: launchctl, launchd, and launchd.plist. However, nothing is really said in these manual pages regarding what the launchctl boostrap and launchctl ...
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I have a simple python script which is moving files from my download folder. The script works fine when I running it via terminal. The issue happens when it gets run through launchd: Traceback (most ...
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Since there is no "Year" parameter in the launchd plist format, how is it possible to create an agent that will run only once and not once a year?
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How would you use a LaunchAgent inside the sandbox? I want to distribute a UI-less LaunchAgent app bundle inside my main application that I can launch on demand. The reason I want this instead of an ...
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I have tried many different variation on this but just can't get it to work. I have a plist file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" ...
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I am trying to uninstall my old sql so that I can install a new one. I am following this post but stuck at launchctl unload. [~/Library/LaunchAgents]$ ls com.adobe.ARM....
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I have a launchd process to unload, the command I have used is launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/costomscript.plist it works fine if the process is already loaded. But if it is not ...
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