Re: [launchd-dev] Stopping and unloading an agent from root-privileged application

Quinn "The Eskimo!" <mailto:eskimo1@apple.com> wrote (Friday, January 7, 2011 3:17 AM -0000):

On 5 Jan 2011, at 17:30, James Bucanek wrote:

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Try this.

% sudo -u <username|#uid> launchctl stop my.agent % sudo -u <username|#uid> launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/my.agent.plist

Have you actually tried this?

I did try this out before I posted it, but admittedly only on 10.6.

It /might/ work on 10.6, but I'm almost certain it won't work on 10.5 because launchctl looks up the launchd to talk to via its Mach bootstrap namespace, and sudo doesn't switch namespace.

Bummer. Apologies for the misdirection. -- James Bucanek