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place a LaunchAgent on the filesystem, but prevent it from loading unless a boolean key is True


  • Subject: place a LaunchAgent on the filesystem, but prevent it from loading unless a boolean key is True
  • From: Allen Hancock - Watchman Monitoring <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 20:19:49 -0600


We're preparing to release an option SupportMenu item, managed via /Library/LaunchAgent.  It'll be enabled for a computer, or disabled, as our Subscriber chooses.



Im trying to figure … what's the less of all evils:

 - Distributing the LaunchAgent as Disabled, then having the postflight set the Disabled key to False as required.

or  

 - omitting it from the BOM and having the postflight copy it into place as required.


It's not the worst abuse of the "package, don't write" guideline, but still, if I can avoid it, I'd like to.


Is there another option, outside of having two versions of the installer?


I suppose I could have the Menu Item look for a key, and launchctl unload itself , but then the app opens for a moment at every login.. seems worst of all these options….


Thanks in advance for any options I'm not seeing.

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