What is com.akamai.client.plist?

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What is com.akamai.client.plist?

Console shows this activity (sample below) which is going on constantly, never stopping.

I searched for akamai, also for "com.akamai.client.plist" and neither can be found as either visible or invisible files.

I searched this forum for info, found directions for removing the software and the plist through the terminal but none of this worked.

I probably am not understanding the situation but it looks like something is trying to start and cannot and is taking up CPU time to do so.

What you think?

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From Console

7/22/11 4:19:11 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[141] (com.akamai.client.plist[22788]) Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:4139 (24498):13

7/22/11 4:19:11 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[141] (com.akamai.client.plist[22788]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Akamai/loader.pl", ...): No such file or directory

7/22/11 4:19:11 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[141] (com.akamai.client.plist[22788]) Exited with exit code: 1

7/22/11 4:19:11 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[141] (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

7/22/11 4:19:21 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[141] (com.akamai.client.plist[22789]) Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:4139 (24498):13

-- and just repeats this sequence over and over.

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Richard

MacBook Pro 15 inch, 2.53 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 4 GB memory

Posted on Jul 22, 2011 7:09 PM

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Answer 1

X423424X

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Jul 22, 2011 7:29 PM in response to Richard Pitcairn

Check this out.

Found simply googling com.akamai.client.plist.

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Answer 2

ds store

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Jul 22, 2011 8:06 PM in response to Richard Pitcairn

You can find the file using the free Easy Find in Admin and simply remove the file and program, plist files are "Preference" files to store preference setitngs and can be deleted as they rebuild automaticall with no preference settings. So you likely need to delete the program first, then the .plist file

http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/

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Answer 3

Jul 22, 2011 8:17 PM in response to ds store

I already used Easy Find before posting this. It did not find anything. That is what is so puzzling about this.

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Answer 4

Jul 22, 2011 8:18 PM in response to X423424X

Thanks. But I had already tried these suggestions before posting. None of the terminal commands worked. "Files not found."

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Answer 5

Linc Davis

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Jul 22, 2011 8:35 PM in response to Richard Pitcairn

Log out and log back in.

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Answer 6

Jul 23, 2011 1:02 PM in response to Richard Pitcairn

Thanks. That did it. Funny there was no mention in instructions about using Terminal that logging out was needed.

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Answer 7

Dec 5, 2011 12:48 PM in response to Linc Davis

I'm embarassed that I'm having the same problem but can't figure out how to log out and log back in in the terminal. Whenever I try to run the "admintool uninstall -root command", it tells me "admintool: command not found".

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Answer 8

Linc Davis

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Dec 5, 2011 1:19 PM in response to Micah Halsey

I have no idea what "admintool" is, but you log out by selecting "Log out" from the Apple menu.

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Answer 9

Dec 5, 2011 2:04 PM in response to Linc Davis

Sorry. I have the same issue where I see the following console errors repeating every 10 seconds:

12/5/11 4:57:42 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.akamai.client.plist[1053]) Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:4139 (24498):13

12/5/11 4:57:42 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.akamai.client.plist[1053]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Akamai/loader.pl", ...): No such file or directory

12/5/11 4:57:42 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.akamai.client.plist[1053]) Exited with exit code: 1

12/5/11 4:57:42 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

This seems to prevent my mac from going to sleep on its own. From what I've googled, it seems to be the remnants of an Akamai download manager installed by Adobe. According to the link in the first reply (http://blog.maecius.com/post/1263581347/uninstall-akamai-download-manager-and), and everything else I've read, the way to get rid of this is to navigate to the Akamai and run the following command:

admintool uninstall -force

Unfortunately, when I do that I get the response:

-bash: admintool: command not found

I thought that your earlier response meant I had to log out and log back in within the terminal. Doing so via the apple menu doesn't seem to help.

I've also been unable to find the offending com.akamai.client.plist file to delete it, as other pages have suggested as another way to kill the errors.

Any advice here would be most appreciated!

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