[launchd-dev] No pboard server?

Dave Dribin dave-ml at dribin.org
Fri Aug 29 11:40:15 PDT 2008


On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Dave Dribin wrote:
> One thing, though... isn't there some script that clears out /private/
> tmp at startup?  Perhaps it should also check to make sure it exists?
> Actually, it looks like /etc/rc used to do just that on 10.4.  Where
> does this happen on 10.5 now?  launchd itself?  I didn't see anything
> in the source.

I just confirmed that if /private/tmp is not present on boot, it does  
not get re-created and then Bad Things happen (one of which is no  
pboard daemon).

I'm still not seeing where /private/tmp gets cleared on boot for  
10.5.  Best I can come up with is /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps.

-Dave



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