Managing launchd

[Brandon Allbery]

On Jul 2, 2009, at 15:33 , Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:06:35PM +0300, Panagiotis Atmatzidis said:
>> I've installed dnsmasq but I don't know how to make launchd start
>> dnsmasq on boot. I understand that this has something to do with
>> launchd but I could not find any documentation on how to do it.
>
> Looks like the dnsmasq port doesn't currently install a launchd item  
> (it has
> at least some of the bits but they are commented-out).  Best would  
> probably
> be to file a ticket for it:
>
> <http://trac.macports.org/newticket>

More generally (say, if you want to customize its startup), try "man  
launchd.conf".

Note that if you want to do something more complicated than launchd's  
respawn-and/or-watch-a-socket model, you may want to create a  
StartupItem instead.  The reference I used (to create some static  
routes) was http://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/Leopard_Static_Routes 
  .

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH



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