On Nov 9, 2010, at 05:45, Russell Jones wrote: > services seem to always auto-restart on Mac OS X. It is the purpose of launchd to auto-restart services that stop unexpectedly. If you want to stop a service that is managed by launchd, you must stop the service via launchd. See "man launchd" or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd for more.