[launchd-dev] Starting launch agents

[Dave Zarzycki]

LaunchAgents are busted in Tiger, but fixed in Leopard.

Sorry!

davez



On Oct 4, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Jeremy Reichman wrote:

> I'm also having a problem with a LaunchAgent in the local domain.
>
> I'm trying to install it to /Library/LaunchAgents via a package  
> installer on
> Mac OS X 10.4.10 (PowerPC on my test system). It installs and  
> appears loaded
> via Lingon, but even a logout and login does not cause it to run.
>
> I've also tried to load and start it at the command line via  
> launchctl, and
> the specified script does not run ... at least not in a reasonable  
> amount of
> time (30 sec). I don't know if this is because I've specified  
> LowPriorityIO
> or not, but toggling that setting on/off hasn't seemed to make a  
> difference
> yet. I'm just copying one file from /Library to ~/Library.
>
> The script itself runs without error if I execute it directly  
> without the
> LaunchAgent. However, I'd like to be able to execute it for each  
> user -- as
> the user -- as they log in, and I don't want to set up and use a  
> LoginHook
> instead.
>
> I also want the installer to make sure the LaunchAgent is set up and
> running, and preferably run the job once for that current user.  
> While I can
> do that with a postinstall script in the package installer that  
> calls the
> LaunchAgent's target script, I'd really like to make sure that the  
> LA is
> ready to go.
>
> I feel like I'm missing something.
>
>
> -- 
> Jeremy
>
>
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