[launchd-dev] launchd/osascript kiosk behaviour

Christopher Hunt huntc at internode.on.net
Wed Feb 28 14:27:39 PST 2007


Hi again Dave,

Thanks for this invaluable dialogue.

It is obvious that some aspects of launch agents do work - can you  
summarise the problem with them on Tiger?

Cheers,
-C

On 01/03/2007, at 8:04 AM, Dave Zarzycki wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Christopher Hunt wrote:
>
>> On 01/03/2007, at 12:48 AM, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
>>
>>> Known bug in Tiger, and fixed in Leopard.
>>>
>>> For most practical purposes, LaunchAgents don't function as  
>>> advertised in Tiger.
>>>
>>> Sorry,
>> That's ok! This is really good to know and knowing this will save  
>> me a great deal of effort. I presume that you're talking about  
>> both ~/Library/LaunchAgents (what I'm using) and /Library/ 
>> LaunchAgents i.e. simply avoid LaunchAgents altogether in Tiger?
>
> Yup.


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