Re: cron/Launchd Editor
Re: cron/Launchd Editor
- Subject: Re: cron/Launchd Editor
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:26:37 -0600
Phillip,On Sep 17, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Philip Aker wrote: I think you haven't followed the documentation or grokked the nature of launchd agents because the example above is still horribly wrong. Firstly, launchd is looking for an _executable_ not a script, so you have to use an executable like osascript to run the script. Secondly, the "Program" and "ProgramArguments" are an XML representation of <x-man-page://3/execvp> and mostly likely written so that they can be loaded into a format suitable for an NSTask-like invocation with a minimum amount of effort. Everyone has to follow that format for this kind of agent. And thirdly, in this case, you only need the StartCalendarInterval for the key/value pair.
The following (save it as "ca.aker.playsound.plist" and remember to 'chown root:wheel'), is something that works OMM. At first, only change "some.scpt" into "playMantelSound.scpt" to check if it works on your setup (I'm on 10.6.1 BTW).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" " http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>ca.aker.playsound</string> <key>Program</key> <string>/bin/sh</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>sh</string> <string>-c</string> <string>/usr/bin/osascript /Library/Scripts/Universal\ Scripts/some.scpt</string> </array> <key>StartCalendarInterval</key> <dict> <key>Minute</key> <integer>0</integer> </dict> </dict> </plist>
Since I don't have playMantelSound.scpt, I can only assume that it actually works in Script Editor. The "some.scpt" I used looks like:
Now we're getting somewhere.
I modified your script - For some reason .scpt's don't behave well with Snow Leopard. So went back to .app. The "/usr/bin/osascript" didn't work so removed it.
Here's the plist as IT WORKS.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.rpoland.playsound</string> <key>Program</key> <string>/bin/sh</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <string>sh</string> <string>-c</string> <string>/Library/Scripts/Universal\ Scripts/playMantelSound.app</string> </array> <key>StartCalendarInterval</key> <dict> <key>Minute</key> <integer>0</integer> </dict> </dict> </plist>
Many THANKS, now on to the rest of the plists.
Bob Poland - Fort Collins, CO
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