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Q: Launchdaemon not launching?

Hello

 

I am not sure how to confirm a launchdaemon is working. I am running OS X 10.10 on a mac mini.

 

I created a plist in textedit and renamed it with the plist file extension and placed it in this folder /Library/LaunchDaemons

 

I then used these permission commands in terminal

sudo chown root:wheel x.plist

sudo chmod 644 x.plist

 

I verified the permissions are correct using:

ls -lah x.plist

 

and the result was     rw-r--r--@ 1 root  wheel   622B Aug 25 10:20 com.net.ORG.blockelcapitan.plist     which I understand to be correct.

 

I then used this to load it  launchctl load /Library/Launchdaemons/x.plist

 

I rebooted and then typed     launchctl list     but it is NOT in the list. Why would that be and how do you confirm it is loaded and working?

 

thanks

Posted on Aug 25, 2016 3:34 AM