To make a long story short, I've got my launchd trying to launch a program that does not exist. I get this in Console.app every 10 seconds: 08/04/16 18:18:08 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.example.BetterAuthorizationSample[1146]) posix_spawnp("/Library/ PrivilegedHelperTools/com.example.BetterAuthorizationSample", ...): No such file or directory 08/04/16 18:18:08 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.example.BetterAuthorizationSample[1146]) Exited with exit code: 1 08/04/16 18:18:08 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.example.BetterAuthorizationSample) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds I want to stop this. Killing the program which requested the launch does not help; apparently launchd is doing this repeatedly under its own power. I commanded launchctl to 'list', and found what looked like the offending process label which was "0x112e20.BetterAuthorizat". That's a rather strange label but it is correct, because if I mis-spell it in a command to launchctl, I get "No such process", but if I spell it exactly like that, it "takes" it. This command: launchctl stop 0x112e20.BetterAuthorizat had no effect. This command: launchctl remove 0x112e20.BetterAuthorizat removed it from 'launchctl list' output, but did not stop the attempted launch every 10 seconds. I don't see any other ideas in man launchctl. Log-out/in does not stop it. Only a restart will stop the repeated attempted launching. Restarts were for Mac OS 9, though. Does anyone know the smart way to stop this? Thanks, Jerry