[launchd-dev] Install and load a launch daemon without a reboot

[Jeremy Reichman]

On 1/25/2011 6:10 PM, "Iceberg-Dev" <dev.iceberg at gmail.com> wrote:


>By payload, do you mean an installation package payload?
>
>If so, then you need to require root/admin authentication in the
>installation package (to be able to install stuff in /Library/
>LaunchDaemons/.
>
>And you don't need both a postinstall and postupgrade scripts. A
>postflight script is enough if you're using a bundle package. A
>postinstall script is OK if you are using a flat package.
>
>You don't need to use whoami. Just use sudo before /bin/launchctl.

To clarify, I did mean the payload. In my case, I'm using The Luggage to
build the package, so the authorization defaults it sets work.

Good point about postflight, as I will be creating a bundle package for
the time being.