Questions tagged [launchdagent]

I am looking for a way to execute my app (it's a background task) at times, where the machine is "idle". A good incident would be when the screensaver launches. I already read the manual auf launchd and already use a LaunchAgent to lauch my app at…

Let's say I have the script below #! /bin/bash sleep 300 dt=$(date '+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S') echo $dt >> /foo/bar/test.txt When I set up a launchagent to trigger this script every 2 minutes... launchd will wait for the script to finish before…

I am trying to load a single user's LaunchAgent plist. All existing plist files in the directory have the permissions of the user and the user's default group, If I use those permissions for my plist file and try to load, I get $ sudo launchctl…

I am running the following python imports in a script that works fine from the command line in terminal and from the ipython notebook. #!/usr/bin/python import os import re import urllib import urllib2 as ul import sys from bs4 import BeautifulSoup…

Like the title said, I'm trying to launch zookeeper automatically using launchd/launchctl in OS X Yosemite. This is my plist file "/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.test.zookeeper.plist", it's owned by root:wheel.