How to remove daemons left by an uninstalled app?

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How to remove daemons left by an uninstalled app?

Hi folks, Can anyone advise how to remove this process that runs every 10 seconds on my Mac?

05/12/2010 22:00:53 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[190] (de.novamedia.NML2NDeviceObserver) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
05/12/2010 22:01:03 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[190] (de.novamedia.NML2NDeviceObserver[647]) posix_spawn("/Applications/launch2net/launch2net.app/Contents/MacOS/NML2NDevice Observer.app/Contents/MacOS/NML2NDeviceObserver", ...): No such file or directory
05/12/2010 22:01:03 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[190] (de.novamedia.NML2NDeviceObserver[647]) Exited with exit code: 1

Thanks,
Keith..

MBP 2.66, 8GB, Parallels, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Dec 5, 2010 2:04 PM

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captfred

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Dec 5, 2010 2:11 PM in response to Number 6

Keith,

See if it's in Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchAgents and/or Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons.

Regards

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Camelot

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Dec 5, 2010 2:19 PM in response to Number 6

Since it's being (re)launched by launchd there should be a launchd configuration file that tells launchd what to load.

Once you identify that you could either unload the file to stop launchctl running it, or just remove the file and reboot.

The file is likely called de.novamedia.NML2NDeviceObserver.plist in either /Library/LaunchDaemons/ or /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/

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