Sudo: needed?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Eneko Gotzon Ares <enekogotzon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Upgrading kdelibs4 port this note is displayed:
>
> # An agent to provide communication between KDE programs must be started.
>
> # To start it run the following command:
>
> # launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macports.kdecache.plist
>
>
> That command:
>
> ·Must be preceded by a "sudo" code? (i.e., *sudo* launchctl load -w
> /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macports.kdecache.plist).
> ·When that "sudo" code is needed, the messages of the Terminal always
> express it explicitly?
>

The latter.   Also note that it is in LaunchAgents and not LaunchDaemons.
 LaunchAgents run as you when you log in; LaunchDaemons run as root during
system boot, before the desktop is started, and need to be installed with
sudo.

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