<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have a LaunchAgent that is configured via Sockets in the plist to listen on several IP+port number endpoints. I would like to make it possible to turn "off" some listening endpoints while the LaunchAgent is running.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s a section of my plist:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&lt;key&gt;Sockets&lt;/key&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&lt;dict&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&lt;key&gt;RemoteSocket&lt;/key&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&lt;dict&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&lt;key&gt;SockServiceName&lt;/key&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&lt;string&gt;26666&lt;/string&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&lt;key&gt;SockFamily&lt;/key&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&lt;string&gt;IPv4&lt;/string&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&lt;key&gt;Bonjour&lt;/key&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&lt;string&gt;myService&lt;/string&gt;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&lt;/dict&gt;</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My process doesn’t have privileges so I can’t modify the plist. I could simply ignore connection attempts from my kevent code but, as you can see, I’m advertising my service via Bonjour.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">What is the best practice for doing this?&nbsp;</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Mitchell J Laurren-Ring</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>