[X-Unix] How make launchd stop trying to launch nonexistent program?

[Jerry Krinock]

On 2008 Apr, 17, at 5:19, Eric F Crist wrote:

> According to man launchd, a separate launchd process is started for  
> each application started and controlled by launchd.  As such, I get  
> the following output:
>
> ecrist at swordfish:~-> ps auxwww |grep launch
> ecrist     110   0.0  0.2   391468   3728   ??  S     6:56PM    
> 0:00.16 /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app/ 
> Contents/MacOS/AirPort Base Station Agent -launchd
> ecrist     106   0.0  0.0   599792    652   ??  Ss    6:56PM    
> 0:01.05 /sbin/launchd
> _mdnsresponder    20   0.0  0.1    77312   1264   ??  Ss    6:56PM    
> 0:00.50 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd
> ecrist    1690   0.0  0.0   599780    400 s000  R+    7:13AM    
> 0:00.00 grep launch
> root         1   0.0  0.0   600816    560   ??  Ss    6:56PM    
> 0:01.30 /sbin/launchd
>
> Do you see your process when you run a ps auxwww?

No, I only see two /sbin/launchd processes, very similar to yours...

Jerrys-Mac-Mini:~ jk$ ps auxww | grep launchd
nobody     124   0.0  0.0   601068    692   ??  Ss    8:36PM    
0:00.01 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/ 
Versions/A/Resources/usbmuxd -launchd
jk          91   0.0  0.2   406216   3192   ??  S     8:35PM    
0:00.14 /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app/ 
Contents/MacOS/AirPort Base Station Agent -launchd
jk          85   0.0  0.0   599792    560   ??  Ss    8:35PM    
0:03.78 /sbin/launchd
_mdnsresponder    17   0.0  0.1   601584   1196   ??  Ss    8:35PM    
0:00.13 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd
jk        4909   0.0  0.0   599780    464 s001  R+    5:43AM   0:00.00  
grep launchd
root         1   0.0  0.0   600816    592   ??  Ss    8:34PM    
0:55.65 /sbin/launchd

Actually I believe it is pid=1 which is causing the problem since if I  
examine the complete console output I'm still getting every 10 seconds,

com.apple.launchd[1] (com.example.BetterAuthorizationSample[4963])  
posix_spawnp("/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/ 
com.example.BetterAuthorizationSample", ...): No such file or directory
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.example.BetterAuthorizationSample[4963])  
Exited with exit code: 1
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.example.BetterAuthorizationSample)  
Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

That [1] is indicating the pid.

> HTH

I'm hoping too.  I'm also working at the other problem, which is the  
nonexistence of this program that launchd is looking for.  Still  
soliciting clues.

Thanks again,

Jerry