[X-Unix] Lingon - launchd - syntax help

[Dean Suhr]

On 1/27/09 12:30 PM, "Dean Suhr" <deansuhr at deansuhr.us> wrote:

> On 1/27/09 12:04 PM, "Eric F Crist" <ecrist at secure-computing.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Dean Suhr wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings all,
>>> 
>>> I¹m making my first dive into launchd. I want to schedule a script
>>> and am using Lingon <http://tuppis.com/lingon/> to help me a bit.
>>> The script has permissions of 777 for debug purposes.
>>> 
>>> The terminal command that works is:
>>>> . /somedirectory/poll-blogs-script.sh  (with a space between the
>>>> period and the first slash)
>>>> 
>>> That command in Lingon/launchd gives me a ³posix_spawnp(³.², ...):
>>> Permission denied² error
>>> 
>>> I am suspecting this is a basic syntax issue ... Can you help?
>> 
>> Different subject, but have a look here:
>> 
>> http://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/Leopard_Static_Routes
>> ---
>> Eric Crist
>> 
> Thanks Eric ... But I am still stumped.  What I noticed from the example you
> gave was ...
> 1) The shell script filename had no period or extension.  I made that change
> to no avail.
> 2) I changed the first line of my script from #!/bin/shell to #!/bin/sh (I
> told you I was new at this!)
> 2) The example shell script was is /System/Library/StartupItems and was called
> by its "unpathed" name without a path. My script is in its own folder,
> somefolder, at the root level with 755 permissions.  As a result I called the
> shell script by /somefolder/scriptname using the same syntax as the plist (no
> leading period). 
> 
> I still get the same permissions error as described above.
> 
> Dean
> 

Got it ... I was not properly unloading and reloading the plist so the old
plist was running even after I made changes.  It's working now.

Thanks!

Dean