Can somebody please elaborate on how one would apply this to LaunchD?

Thanks in Advance,
MacTipper

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Notice how you set a name in the part "com.domain.whatever". So what you do is save that text file with the name and a ".plist" extension i.e. com.domain.whatever.plist. Then you take that file and put it in your ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder. The next time you logout or reboot your computer launchd will see the file and it will be working.

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I imagine you could force the load immediately without a reboot/relogin with launchctl? Perhaps:

$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.domain.whatever.plist

(Not a launchd/launchctl guru here, please correct as needed)

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This is perfectly correct. I'd like to add, if you would like to remove the job, you use

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.domain.whatever.plist

If you would like to remove the job permanently you should also delete/move the file from that folder (or set the disabled key in the plist file to true, see the man launchd.plist for details). You should also unload and then load again if you modify the .plist file.

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The best launchd description / tutorial I've found is at afp548 [link:]http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=2008030421090192

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Thanks for the help everybody!

MacTipper

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