[launchd-dev] User agent modified file check for all users?

[Dave Zarzycki]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Galen Sprague wrote:

> On 1/29/08 8:21 PM, "Dave Zarzycki" <zarzycki at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Galen Sprague wrote:
>>> On 1/29/08 4:07 PM, "Dave Zarzycki" <zarzycki at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jan 29, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Galen Sprague wrote:
>>>>> On 1/29/08 3:19 PM, "Dave Zarzycki" <zarzycki at apple.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Nathan Duran wrote:
>>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Galen Sprague wrote:
>>>>>>>> I had a question about creating a User Agent for multiple users
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> Lingon.  Is there a way to set the When:Run it if this file is
>>>>>>>> modified as: ~/Library/Preferences/com.systempreferences.plist
>>>>>>>> instead of /Users/loggedInUser/LibraryPreferences/
>>>>>>>> com.apple.systempreferences.plist? It doesn’t seem to recognize
>>>>>>>> ~/
>>>>>>>> Library
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This way my terminal command will run if any User’s
>>>>>>>> com.apple.systempreferences.plist is modified.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can't really imagine this being possible. How is launchd
>>>>>>> supposed
>>>>>>> to know which user's directory the tilde should be expanded into
>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>> any given moment considering the fact that multiple users can be
>>>>>>> logged in concurrently?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is one launchd per user, so in theory, it shouldn't be  
>>>>>> hard.
>>>>>> Unfortunately, the "~" magic doesn't work for WatchPaths at the
>>>>>> moment. Feel free to file a bug,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have also tried adding multiple WatchPaths by editing the .plist
>>>>> file but
>>>>> it only seems to use the first WatchPath, is there away around
>>>>> this?  Do I
>>>>> need to create another attribute so it watches more than one path?
>>>>
>>>> Can you please supply an example configuration file?
>>>>
>>> Here you go...
>>>
>>> <example.zip>
>>
>> Where are you installing this configuration file?
>>
> /Library/LaunchAgents/


The normal file system permissions are tripping you up. The default  
permissions for ~/Library are 700. That means that any given per-user  
launchd cannot monitor the preferences of their peers.

davez