site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Oct 27, 2004, at 19:05, Michael Burbidge wrote: cheers, Markus --- Markus W. Weissmann http://www.mweissmann.de/ http://www.opendarwin.org/~mww/ _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com I'm need to write a startupitem or daemon which manages a pool of processes. It would be responsible for launching, monitoring, and killing processes in the pool. It seems that this could easily be implemented as an OS X StartupItem. But I'm looking for some guidelines as to when to use StartupItems v.s. a daemon process. Can anyone give me some feedback or point me at a document? In fact you need both: a daemon and a Startupitem; StarupItems are just a fancy way of starting daemons, much like the startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/ or /etc/init.d/ in Linux Just take a look at the StartupItems Apple ships with OS-X (e. g. Apache) in /System/Library/StartupItems/ PGP.sig