init script

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 24, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> I had to write a few for a laptop tracker at a previous job. After seeing how each key works and reading the whole man page, I've come to love launchd quite a bit :-) ...to the point I wonder why we still have daemondo in MacPorts.


daemondo is great for things that don't quite fit into the launchd way of things (eg., you need to run a script to startup and stop the service, the service insists on detaching itself so launchd will think it died, you need to perform an action on a system configuration change [restart-netchange, restart-wakeup, restart-dist-notify ...]).

we can (and maybe should) transition to not using it in cases where it doesn't add value, though (which would be when we're using startupitem.executable without startupitem.pidfile or startupitem.netchange)

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