Re: Running processes under the login screen

• Subject: Re: Running processes under the login screen
• From: Stuart Ramdeen <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:34:53 +0000
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This joyful article may explain:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html

Stu

On 22 Jan 2008, at 01:27, Nathan Zamprogno wrote:

I understand that, using launchd, I can cause faceless processes to run at boot, even under the login screen. This method was one that (for example) allowed people to cleverly script the Screen Saver process to engage at the login window, even though Apple (infuriatingly) provide no support of their own for this to occur. I have used just such a launchd process to launch a command line version of BOINC to run outside business hours on our lab Macs.

However, all this was under Tiger. I have heard through several lists and forums that these hacks are not behaving as expected under Leopard. Significantly, people have been unable to trigger the Screensaver engine at the login screen using the same "form" of the script that worked perfectly under Tiger.

Thus, my question is: is anyone aware of any changes in Leopard that would cause this behavior? I would still like to run BOINC, ideally as a login-screen screensaver, but by second preference as a daemon process as I do now.

Thanks,
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Nathan Zamprogno,

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