Macports & launchctl - plist disabled by default prevents apache2 form starting

[William Davis]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Michel LE LAY wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm using macports 1.520
>
> As a follow-up to thread
> MySQL5, OS X 10.4.10, startups, etc.
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-September/ 
> 005756.html
>
> I had the same problem with the upgraded version of apache2 : the  
> symlinks are correct
>
> $ ls -l /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  76  8 oct 12:14 /Library/LaunchDaemons/ 
> org.macports.apache2.plist -> /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/ 
> org.macports.apache2/org.macports.apache2.plist
> $ ls -l /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2/ 
> org.macports.apache2.plist
> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel  992 10 oct 22:22 /opt/local/etc/ 
> LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2/org.macports.apache2.plist
>
> And launchctl load kept saying that there was "nothing to load"  
> when I typed
> sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist.
>
> It seems that the default generated org.macports.apache2.plist has  
> these keys at the end :
>
>      <key>Disabled</key><true/>
>      <key>OnDemand</key><false/>
>      <key>RunAtLoad</key><false/>
>
> So, when launchctl parses the file, it sees Disabled==true and  
> doesn't load.
>
> Removing Disabled and OnDemand and turning RunAtLoad to true solves  
> the problem.
> Please, could you inspect the code generating startup-items ?
>
> Cheers,
>

from man launchctl

SUBCOMMANDS
      load [-wF] paths ...
               Load the specified configuration files or directories  
of config-
               uration files.

               -w       Remove the disabled key and write the  
configuration
                        files back out to disk.
and there is much other info there......

goodluck