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I downloaded the Google App Engine installer and installed GAE. Now I get a periodic popup asking me if I would like to update it. There doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off.

How does this thing have hooks into my OS?

bash-3.2# pwd
/usr/lib/cron/tabs
bash-3.2# ls -la
total 0
drwx------  2 root    wheel   68 May 18  2009 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 daemon  wheel  272 Sep  4  2011 ..
bash-3.2#

Nope.

$ ls /etc/crontab
ls: /etc/crontab: No such file or directory

Nope.

It doesn't seem to be cron waking it up. Any ideas of how to turn it off?

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It's using launchd to schedule updates. Its configuration file should be in your user's LaunchAgents directory (~/Library/LaunchAgents/). It can just be disabled (as opposed to just deleting the whole thing) by modifying the plist file to add a disabled key as such:

open ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist

Then add the disabled key:

<key>Disabled</key>
<true/>
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  • well it turned out to be in the system-wide /Library/LaunchAgents/ , but otherwise I found it; now to see if it works, which I suppose I will never notice if it does unless I think about it; thanks – Daniel Aug 27 '13 at 23:38