launchd

I'm a Linux user that just recently got a mac. I'm trying to set up my IDE and found out that Macs don't use .bashrc / .bash_profile / etc. for GUI apps. So, if you have a GUI app that needs an environment variable, you're apparently supposed to do it in /etc/launchd.conf The thing is, this file uses csh style setenv syntax ("setenv key value" instead of "export key='value'") so now that I have a variable that has a space in it, I don't know what to do. Nothing is working. This is what I've tried to test it: setenv MAVEN_OPTS "-Xms512m -Xmx1024m" setenv MAVEN_OPTS1 '-Xms512m -Xmx1024m' setenv

I configured the launchd to start a command at 18pm every day on my mac pro,but it was not working. I want to check if the launchd has run the command. I tried the system console, found no anything valuable. my mac os version is mac os x 10.8.3 My plist file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>mytask</string> <key>Program</key> <string>/opt/local/bin/node</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/Users/xxx/My/task.js<

I'm trying to figure out why my launchd script is not working. It is extremely simple, but I am new to the mac environment and trying to get accustomed. Here's my plist. I know ProgramArguments is required, so I just put the script path in there. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.tomcat.plist</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/opt/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/bin/startup.sh</string> </array> <key>OnDemand</key> <false/>

I recently installed Jenkins, using Homebrew. I also installed Mercurial using Homebrew. I can successfully clone an hg repo just fine - from Terminal. But if I try and do the same thing as part of a job in Jenkins, it fails. So, in by job, I told Jenkins to run a shell script echo $PATH . Sure enough, the path /usr/local/bin is not there. If I execute the same command from Terminal, it's there. So, what is the best way to modify PATH so that Jenkins is pulling the same PATH that I'm using, when I echo it from Terminal? Note, Jenkins is running from the same user account that I'm logged into

i'm running mongo 1.8.2 and trying to see how to cleanly shut it down on Mac. on our ubuntu servers i can shutdown mongo cleanly from the mongo shell with: > use admin > db.shutdownServer() but on my Mac, it does not kill the mongod process. the output shows that it 'should be' shutdown but when i ps -ef | grep mongo it shows me an active process. also, i can still open a mongo shell and query my dbs like it was never shutdown. the output from my db.shutdownServer() locally is: MongoDB shell version: 1.8.2 connecting to: test > use admin switched to db admin > db.shutdownServer() Tue Dec 13 11

I'm trying to remove a privileged helper tool installed via SMJobBless , I'm getting a positive return value and no errors, yet the files at /Library/PrivilegedTools and /Library/LaunchDaemons are not deleted. Do I have to delete these files myself? From the documentation I read: Return Value true if the job was removed successfully, otherwise false. I'm calling the following to remove the job: result = SMJobRemove(kSMDomainSystemLaunchd, (__bridge CFStringRef)label, _authRef, YES, &errorCF); Thanks jatoben , that thread had the answer I was looking for. As suspected you do have to remove the

I need to be able to start/stop a per-session GUI agent from a root level daemon. Similar issues are discussed here , here and here . What I want to be able to do is basically for num in `ps ax | grep [s]bin/launchd | cut -c 1-5`; do if [ $num -ne 1 ]; then sudo launchctl bsexec $num launchctl (un)load -S Aqua /Library/LaunchAgents/com.mycompany.mydaemon.plist; fi; done but this only starts/stops one instance and it runs as root in the current GUI session. If I leave the sudo off there start I get task_for_pid() (os/kern) failure Couldn't switch to new bootstrap port: (ipc/send) invalid port