startup items for dbus and dovecot2

Mark Hattam mark at dxradio.demon.co.uk
Sat Jun 4 15:23:23 PDT 2011


Having just done port updates for dbus and dovecot2 this evening, they both printed out similar guidance messages about startup items.

But I don't understand why dbus uses "launchctl load" whereas dovecot uses "port load" ... is there a difference?


############################################################################
# Startup items have been generated that will aid in
# starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled
# by default. Execute the following command to start them,
# and to cause them to launch at startup:
#
# sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
# launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
############################################################################


###########################################################
# A startup item has been generated that will aid in
# starting dovecot2 with launchd. It is disabled
# by default. Execute the following command to start it,
# and to cause it to launch at startup:
#
# sudo port load dovecot2
###########################################################



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