[launchd-dev] launchd/osascript kiosk behaviour

[Christopher Hunt]

Hi there,

Please forgive me if this is an inappropriate place to post an  
observation of launchd that I'm finding hard to understand. Please  
also feel free to direct me elsewhere as necessary.

I'm trying to execute osascript -e <command> via launchd and it  
reports an error (an abort) in the system.log file. More specifically:

launchd[4108]: com.classactionpl.restartvision: exited abnormally:  
Abort trap

Others item of interest:
- the user I'm logged in under has not launched the Finder - it is a  
kiosk style of user where a custom application is launched in place  
of the Finder.
- my plist is under the ~/Library/LaunchAgents i.e. the user's launch  
agent's directory
- all is well if I perform the same osascript command from within the  
same user's crontab
- all is well if I perform the same osascript command from the  
command line

One particular item of interest is: if I "launchd bash", load the  
plists and the start the job, the osascript command works! So why  
shouldn't the command work outside of this?

Here's the plist I'm using:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http:// 
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Debug</key>
	<true/>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.classactionpl.restartvision</string>
	<key>OnDemand</key>
	<true/>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>osascript</string>
		<string>-e</string>
		<string>tell application "World" to quit</string>
	</array>
	<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
	<dict>
		<key>Hour</key>
		<integer>0</integer>
		<key>Minute</key>
		<integer>0</integer>
	</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Debug etc. doesn't yield more info.

'hoping that someone can help.

Kind regards,
Christopher