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| Mac OS X provides two methods for launching daemons: [[creating startup items|startup items]] and launchd(8) daemons. Which one you use depends largely on the versions of Mac OS X that the daemon must support. | Mac OS X provides two methods for launching daemons: [[creating startup items|startup items]] and launchd(8) daemons. Which one you use depends largely on the versions of Mac OS X that the daemon must support. | ||
| * Mac OS X v10.3 and earlier: You must use startup items. The launchd service is not supported prior to v10.4. | * Mac OS X v10.3 and earlier: You must use startup items. The launchd service is not supported prior to v10.4. | ||
| - | * Mac OS X v10.4 and earlier: You can either use startup items or launchd daemons. Using launchd daemons is preferred unless you also require backwards compatibility with versions of Mac OS X prior to v10.4. | + | * Mac OS X v10.4 and later: You can either use startup items or launchd daemons. Using launchd daemons is preferred unless you also require backwards compatibility with versions of Mac OS X prior to v10.4. |
| - | ===== Basic Instructions | + | ===== Creating a launchd job ===== |
| - review the [[#External Links]] below to get a better understanding of how launchd and launchctl work | - review the [[#External Links]] below to get a better understanding of how launchd and launchctl work | ||
| - open Property List Editor (included in Developer Tools) or use a text editor to create files like the examples below | - open Property List Editor (included in Developer Tools) or use a text editor to create files like the examples below | ||
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| ===== Example: Apache2 ===== | ===== Example: Apache2 ===== | ||
| - | FIXME | + | Since the apachectl program spawns a daemon and doesn' |
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| + | <code sh> | ||
| + | #!/bin/sh | ||
| + | / | ||
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| + | sleeptime=40 | ||
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| + | httpdArray=(`ps -U www | grep httpd | awk ' | ||
| + | let httpdCount=${# | ||
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| + | while (($httpdCount > 0)) | ||
| + | do | ||
| + | sleep $sleeptime; | ||
| + | hpptdArray=(`ps -U www | grep httpd | awk ' | ||
| + | let httpdCount=${# | ||
| + | done | ||
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| + | echo " | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| ===== Example: MySQL ===== | ===== Example: MySQL ===== | ||
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| + | ===== Example: Postgres ===== | ||
| + | **/ | ||
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| + | * note - the below script causes console to log this:< | ||
| + | * 7/1/12 2:24:05.272 PM com.apple.launchd: | ||
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| + | * however, if you try changing the users to _postgres, the launch fails (doesn' | ||
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