[launchd-dev] launchd & mDNSResponder: "Policy denied Mach service lookup"

[Björn Giesler]

Hi,

can nobody answer my question? I'd like to know where I can set  
policies that allow launchd subprocesses (mDNSResponder in my case) to  
look up Mach services.

My error is

com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder[2551]): Policy denied  
Mach service lookup: com.apple.system.notification_center
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder[2551]): Policy denied  
Mach service lookup: com.apple.system.DirectoryService.libinfo_v1
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder[2551]): Policy denied  
Mach service lookup: com.apple.SystemConfiguration.configd

etc.etc.

The launchd documentation knows nothing about policies.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Björn

Am 02.08.2009 um 09:06 schrieb Björn Giesler:

> Hi,
>
> thanks for your reply!
>
> Am 02.08.2009 um 08:57 schrieb Damien Sorresso:
>> mDNSResponder has a policy set on it saying that is is allowed to  
>> look up only a certain set of MachService names.  
>> "com.apple.distributed_notifications.2" is not in that list, so we  
>> log a warning about it. There's probably a framework behind the  
>> scenes that mDNSResponder uses that is looking up that service.
>>
>> It's basically a harmless error (I don't believe distributed  
>> notifications are essential to mDNSResponder's function), but feel  
>> free to file a bug against mDNSResponder.
>
> Well, that's by far not the only service it requests; it fills up  
> the log with those messages. I probably picked the least crucial  
> one, it's also trying to lookup  
> com.apple.system.notification_center,  
> com.apple.system.DirectoryService.libinfo_v1,  
> com.apple.SystemConfiguration.configd and lots more.
>
> So if you write that "mDNSResponder has a policy set on it", I guess  
> my question is, where do these policies get set?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Björn
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