[launchd-dev] Disabled in com.apple.periodic-daily.plist

[Kevin Van Vechten]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:09 AM, ksprotte wrote:

> I have seen a lot of talk about using launchd to run the periodic  
> jobs.
> However, I could not find a comment about the Disabled flag. It seems
> that in the com.apple.periodic-daily.plist the Disabled flag is true  
> by
> default.

com.apple.periodic-daily.plist does not contain the Disabled key on my  
Leopard system.  Which system (`sw_vers -buildVersion`) are you seeing  
this on?

> I am not sure what this actually means. Could someone explain, please?

If a property list contains the Disabled key with a value of true,  
then launchctl(1) will not load the job at boot (and the job's label  
will not be listed in `sudo launchctl list`).

- Kevin