site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Peter, Thanks for your response. I think perhaps my question wasn't clear. Thanks again, --Mike On Nov 13, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Peter Seebach wrote: Hmm. Wasn't there something like KeepAlive, now deprecated? _______________________________________________ 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... I'm trying to work around the documented limitation in launchd (on Tiger) that prevents it from being used to launch a process at user login. The limitation, as I understand it, is that there's no way to prevent launchd from launching the process even if the user logs in via a non-GUI method like ssh. So, I guess what I'm asking is if, *once I have been launched as a Login Item*, I can leverage launchd to simply re-launch me properly if I should crash. Or, does a subsequent launch-on-crash suffer the same basic problem that prevents launching me at login in the first place? If using launchd won't cut it, is there an alternative approach for not just launching me at login, but also re-launching me if I crash? Obviously, I don't anticipate crashing, but the project requirements I've been handed specify automatic re-launching of this background helper app, and I'd prefer to find a way to satisfy the requirements rather than argue to have the requirement removed. PS: "KeepAlive" is the 10.5 option. In 10.4, it was "OnDemand", which is now deprecated. In message <A803D32F-2118-4BA0-B1D9-D6F14048C95A@alum.mit.edu>, Mike Kobb write s: So, what I'm wondering is: is there any way to use launchd to give me the automatic restart that I need, on Tiger? One thing I had thought of doing is to have myself launched as a Login Item, but once launched, to *add myself* to launchd's list so that if I should crash, I'll get re-launched. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com