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

[Eric F Crist]

Jerry,

I would punt.  Unless this is a production server, just reboot.  I'll  
keep looking for the 'right' way to do this, however.

Eric


On Apr 17, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote:

>
> 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
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Eric F Crist
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