Triggering launch daemon at login

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Triggering launch daemon at login

Using network drives, we have to folder redirect a few things like the Adobe Reader preferences that don't like network drives and web caches which are a waste of network drives.

So we set up a Scratch partition and allocate a local folder for each user when they login.

Unfortunately the ownership sometimes gets mucked up and a launch agent running as the user can't do the chown.

Would a launch daemon doing a watchpath of /dev/console do the trick or would that get triggered too often? not on login?

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 18, 2015 7:59 AM

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Answer 1

twtwtw

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Feb 18, 2015 9:41 AM in response to DaniAtWaterloo

Where is your LaunchAgent plist file stored? If you place it in ~/Library/LaunchAgents it will run at login as the given user with the user's privileges, but if you place it in /Library/LaunchAgents it ought to run at login as the given user with administrator privileges.

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Answer 2

Feb 18, 2015 12:07 PM in response to twtwtw

Added a "mkdir /NEWDIR" to my script called from my /Library/LaunchAgents/blah,plist and it gives permission denied so that doesn't seem to be true.

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Answer 3

Linc Davis

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Feb 18, 2015 1:28 PM in response to DaniAtWaterloo

Agents always run with the user's privileges at login. Your best option is to correct the underlying problem, not to try to paper over it with launchd.

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