[launchd-dev] 10.4 & 10.5 LaunchAgent compatibility

16 Feb 2009

      I've been working on a solution to some issues with getting
OpenOffice.org.app to work in a headless state but there is some issue with
the build that prevents this.

So, as a work around I am trying to come up with a LaunchAgent that will
load OpenOffice.org on boot and run consistently. It seems I have no choice
to use LoginWindow and Aqua to keep it up regardless of whether or not a
user is logged in. On 10.4.11 no matter what I do, it does not load at boot.
I have to manually load it with
launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/net.execuchoice.doc-converter.plist
Obviously this is not practical. On 10.5.x it loads as expected on boot.

My questions are:
1) Am I doing something wrong in the following file?

2) Is there something I can do to get this to work universally for both
platforms? (10.4 & 10.5)

3) Is there a way to have this launch regardless of the LoginWindow or Aqua
session type rather than have an instance close and relaunch?

<?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>
    <true/>
    <key>OnDemand</key>
    <false/>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>net.execuchoice.doc-converter</string>
    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <array>
        <string>LoginWindow</string>
        <string>Aqua</string>
    </array>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>

<string>/Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice.bin</string>
        <string>-headless</string>
        <string>-nologo</string>
        <string>-nofirststartwizard</string>
        <string>-invisible</string>
        <string>-accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;"</string>
    </array>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/OpenOfficeDaemon.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Library/Logs/OpenOfficeDaemon.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Thanks

Steffan

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