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launchd is a Mac OS X daemon that manages launching programs and network services on behalf of the system or individual users. It attempts to replace most of the functionality of traditional UNIX init, cron, inetd, and other system services.

launchd is a Mac OS X daemon that manages launching programs and network services on behalf of the system or individual users. It attempts to replace most of the functionality of traditional UNIX init, cron, inetd, and other system services.

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Backing up mysql databases with launchd - what's wrong?

I'm trying to setup a backup of my databases on my new mac. I've got the script created and as far as creating the launchd plist file. However, the task seems to run over and over, instead of once a day. I set the StartInterval to 86400, but the…
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which daemons are running?

Runing snow leopard, I'd like to find a way to say: "Right now, this is what's is running and this is who is running it" I've enabled process accounting and auditing, which should tell me this, but I thought I'd ask here to see if there were other…
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Starting Apache 2 at boot on Mac OS X Server 10.6

Having compiled, installed and configured Apache 2.2.15 on Mac OS X Server 10.6, all went fine. The server is running fine when started manually, no configuration problems. Then i added a launchd system wide daemon (in /Library/LaunchDaemons/),…
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OSX How to prevent user unload a daemon?

I'm working in a task to keep Mac application is always alive. I'm success to create a plist file to make app respawn when user force quite app from Dock or kill process from Activity Monitor Here's my plist file
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Launchd logging to system logs

I am currently doing something like this StandardOutPath /var/log/s.log StandardErrorPath /var/log/e.log I would like to use system log instead of files. Is there a way to accomplish that by…
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clamav - clamd error when setup as daemon (mac osx)

Issue: Setting up clamav as a daemon process in mac osx throws some cumbersome errors and warnings while doing the setup and the documentation is good, but not perfect. I ran into some permission issues, file location issues, etc. Things that are…
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