site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hello, my name is Michal and I got contact to you from Peter Borg, creator of Lingon (launchd GUI interface). I am forwarding you my e-mail to him. It is not so much about Lingon it is basicaly about launchd. Any help in my cases will be appriciated. Thanks in advance. Best Regards Michal Hello Peter, first of all I would like to thank you for creating such amazing tool like Lingon. It helps me very much. But I would like to ask you about one thing I clearly not understand. I am using for monitoring software called RMA ( RMA 1.23 for Mac OS X 10.4 (i686) - http://www.hostmonitor.biz/download/rma123_darwin88i32.zip). This is just an agent for Mac OS X. I created launchd plist with your Lingon. I tried to create "Keep an application/script always running" but when I look into Console it creates some error (exactly "launchd: RMA Host Monitor Script: 9 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal ... will restart in 10 seconds). Unfortunately I am not able to find/log any significant error anywhere (Console, sterr output even if I enable Debug option). So where can I find exactly why the script / command failed? I also understand this is not problem of Lingon but mostly launchd itself. I successfully create the plist (and keep it running) only with "run a job at startup". But maybe you understand I want to be sure the RMA agent is running and if there will be any unexpected failure the plist is strictly written only "at startup" so that means during the cycle, the launchd didn't check if the script is running or not. So is there any way how to monitor if the script is running other than just look into launchctl and see it in list? Because I had several cases when script was listed in launchctl but was not active (means script was not running).Or must I create another bash script which will check if the process is running ? The RMA Agent is started with following command line: ./rma -d ~/RMA/rma.ini (-d is daemon, rma.ini is configuration file) ...and second thing. I used launchd also for moving some files to another computer. You are using path called "Queue Directories". That means if anything is placed into this directory (not sure about subdirectories, please confirm), the script is launched. Unfortunately (I am not sure if it is also launchd "feature" or not) if I am placing some big file (like pictures in print resolution, but in this case just imagine DVD ISO image), the launchd (or Lingon) isn't checking if the file is open or not. In my opinion it just checking HFS+ header and if some file is added (means record for that file is created - but not content) the script is launched which case in my example "unable to copy because too much characters" error. I did it in my script with checking "lsof" if the file is used or not. Isn't there any other way directly in launchd or Lingon ? _______________________________________________ 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