launchctl: Error unloading

Thanks for the suggestion! I hadn't thought to try that. Alas, to no avail 😟

% launchctl remove com.mycom.audaemon

launchctl remove error: No such process

% ps aux | grep audaemon

carl 281 0.0 0.1 2542351 9103 ?? S Fri03PM 0:13.42 /Users/carl/Applications/audaemon

When I kill the process (or reboot), launchd restarts it.

% kill 281

% ps aux | grep audaemon

carl 2616 0.0 0.1 2510408 6816 ?? S 4:32PM 0:00.02 /Users/carl/Applications/audaemon

I moved the binary and killed the process. launchd doesn't restart it.

4/8/14 5:17:40.498 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[167]: (com.mycom.audaemon[2616]) Exited: Terminated: 15

4/8/14 5:17:40.499 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[167]: (com.mycom.audaemon[2679]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

4/8/14 5:17:40.499 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[167]: (com.mycom.audaemon[2679]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

I moved the binary back, and launchd restarts it.

carl 2684 0.0 0.1 2532976 8440 ?? S 5:26PM 0:00.04 0:13.42 /Users/carl/Applications/audaemon

So, I think it's saying that it is the very same agent.

Okay, this is getting somewhere...

I removed the plist and logged out and back in. The process is gone.

However if I place the plist back in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ it does not restart when logging in again.

At the Terminal window, if I try to

launchctl load /Users/carl/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mycom.audaemon.plist

nothing found to load

But it loads only if I supply the -F option (which I can't do when logging in).

I checked the overrides.plist, and there's only 1 entry in it (smbd):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>com.apple.smbd</key>

<dict>

<key>Disabled</key>

<true/>

</dict>

</dict>

</plist>

Any ideas as to why I would now need the -F option to load it?

> There is a per-user overrides file

Indeed! I found it: /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.521/overrides.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>com.mycom.audaemon</key>

<dict>

<key>Disabled</key>

<true/>

</dict>

</dict>

</plist>

The -w option does reset the Disabled key to false, but I deleted the file anyways, and now it works as expected! (I do wish launchctl were more verbose.)

Thanks for the great help!