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Re: LaunchAgents in Tiger
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Re: LaunchAgents in Tiger


  • Subject: Re: LaunchAgents in Tiger
  • From: Ryan McGann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:42:09 -0700

On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:07 PM, email@hidden wrote:

Hello all,

My installer install a program, which i needed to run at user-login. Now
for the same i have written a LaunchAgent but the problem is it is not
launching at user-login.


I put the plist file at /Library/LaunchAgents

Also when logged in, if from terminal, if i fire:

launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.launchd.myprogram.plist (which
has RunAtLoad = true).


In the /var/log/system.log i get
launchd[2..2] com.launchd.myprogram:exited abnormally: Abort Trap

However, if i run :

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.launchd.myprogram.plist

Everything works fine.

I tried the same on a leopard and snow leopard box and everything works
fine there without any problem. What is is that i am missing in Tiger?
LaunchAgents are broken in Tiger. You must be using Leopard to use them. In Tiger, you can modify the LoginItems directly hwich is technically unsupported, but I doubt Apple is going to break it now. Google should be able to find you the code to modify the com.apple.loginwindow.plist, or you can just open it up in Tiger and figure it out--it's not terribly difficult.

Ryan

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