Apple did it again!

[Alakazam]

> Yes. I also would appreciate a clear HOWTO for that kind of thing,  
> being new
> to Macs and already missing the simple (and sometimes simplistic) / 
> etc/init.d
> scheme common on other platforms:-)

As Ryan indicated (and I agree that hacking the Apple provided  
services is not very good practice), "launchctl" is the equivalent of  
"/etc/init.d" on linux platforms (equivalent is not entirely exact).

Lingon is a good "GUI" tool to explore the services provided by  
launchctl. I would not advise you to use it to edit those services  
though.

Apple also has a documentation page on launchd (the daemon that  
launchctl interacts with), the didactic quality of which I haven't  
verified :

> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html

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Alakazam <alakazam at melix.net>