Descriptions of launch agents and daemons?

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Does anyone know where I can find a description of all the system agents and daemons?

OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Apr 1, 2015 5:37 AM

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Answer 1

LaunchDaemons are loaded at system boot
LaunchAgents are loaded when a user logs in
launchctl is a command line tool to manually load and unload LaunchDaemon or LaunchAgent plists.

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Answer 2

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They're not publicly documented.

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Answer 3

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I should have been more clear.

I'm looking for what each system launch agent and daemon in Yosemite does, not how launch agents and daemons work in general.

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Answer 4

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Pathetic.

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