[launchd-dev] Why no key to "Run once on restart"

[Jerry Krinock]

On 2011 May 24, at 01:01, Thomas Clement wrote:

> You should probably use "RunAtLoad" instead of "StartOnMount".

Ah, hand hits forehead.  You see, in my apps, I use my addLaunchdAgent routine  which writes the plist file and then spawns launchctl to *load* it.  So for years now, I've always thought of installing and loading as a single operation, unlike everyone else who installs their task and then wonders why it doesn't work.

So, I'd thought that if I "added" "RunAtLoad" it would run immediately when I added it, which was not acceptable.  The obvious solution is to not install but not load it.

Now I understand why no one else ever asked this :))

Thank you, Thomas.

Jerry