Re: Agent Applications and launchd
Re: Agent Applications and launchd
- Subject: Re: Agent Applications and launchd
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:59:05 -0800
- Thread-topic: Agent Applications and launchd
on 05/12/27 21:29, Scott Ribe at email@hidden wrote:
>
Isn't the use of Login Items deprecated in Tiger? For Tiger, the OP should
>
be using launchd via /Library/LaunchAgents or (~/Library/LaunchAgents).
Scott, after reading some recent Apple documentation, for a few minutes I
thought the same thing as you just said there, but then I said to myself
"Wait a minute, then why does Tiger still have a "Login Items" in System
Preferences? I think the confusion is that Apple has re-used the term
"Login Items" to mean two different things over the last few years. My head
is still spinning from reading these docs that I can't put my finger on the
source of the ambiguity, but maybe someone who is less confused can
straighten this out for us.
I believe that we must still have at least three different, undepracated
types of these background login/startup/agent/daemon/whatever thingys:
(a) Thingys that launch when the system boots, probably as root.
(b) Thingys that launch when a user logs in, in their account, but do NOT
show up in the System Preferences > Login Items.
(c) Thingys that launch when a user logs in, in their account, but DO show
up in the System Preferences > Login Items.
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