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Shell script run daily by launchd stopped working after macOS Sequoia upgrade
I have a setup to copy backups from an Ubuntu 22 server running in the cloud to a local Mac. On the Mac I have a shell script to run the rsync command and a launchd daemon to run this script daily. ...
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Make a login/logout script in mac [duplicate]
What would be the best way to log login, logout and the user that is logging into the mac? I have some machines which I control from remote desktop. I want to monitor who is logging into them and what ...
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Having period job to remove temporary files
I've defined a periodic plist which runs a bash script. The plist is placed in the local library and script is also place in /usr/local/bin. It successfully run the script on the defined period but it ...
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launchd job returning 2 but works fine in terminal
I'm trying to write a bash script to clean up my Downloads folder every day at a certain time. The bash script should get called then a python program afterwards to do the cleanup. I'm using launchd ...
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Setting global/system variable visible from JVM in console and Eclipse
How to define global/system variable in OSX latest versions (Monterey/Ventura) that should be visible from console (JVM) and IDE (preferable Eclipse, IntelliJ has special knowledge how to handle this ...
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How to disable PasswordBreachAgent
I use macOS Big Sur 11.7.2. I first tried this in the Terminal (Bash, not zsh): launchctl disable PasswordBreachAgent Which generates this: Unrecognized target specifier. takes a form of /. Please ...
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Debugging phantom zsh process
Every once in a while (once a week?) I noticed that my mac's fans are spinning full speed. When I investigate my processes on activity monitor I notice a zsh process consuming near 100% on the cpu. ...
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launchctl: Unrecognized target specifier
I think that at one point in the past I disabled my media keys using the instructions provided in this answer. I am trying to re-enable them, but upon using the command: launchctl bootstrap "gui/$...
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Hiding default folders via launchagent: not applying to documents
Bit of an odd one. Our organisation needs to allow some aspect of local storage access to accommodate work on large files without constantly writing to network drives. They work on these files and ...
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Give the Terminal.app Full Disk permission problem even it is given
macOS: v 11.2.3 Chip Apple M1 I have given the Full Disk Access to Terminal and iTerm. But when I run a Bash script to clean up the Trash directory I get "Give the Terminal.app Full Disk ...
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How can I return the logged in user from inside a pkg which is running as root?
I'm using the Packages app to create an installer which includes, among other things, a launchd job. The postinstall Bash script needs to target the logged in user as follows: launchctl bootstrap gui/$...
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LaunchAgents zip/tar not working in plist?
I created the plist for a 'custom' backup agent (via LaunchAgent). The (zip) program is called, but I keep getting a 'zip error: Nothing to do!' in my logs. I assume it has something todo with ...
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Using launchd to clear bash history?
Clarification: Am not looking to destroy history, am looking for means to periodically purge it via launchd for security purposes Have been using cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history to clear bash ...
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Display Terminal message on login
I want to display something like ### this is a test ### when a new Terminal window is open (and ideally, in a way that can be disabled easily). On Linux this was straightforward; you'd create a script ...
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Unable to run Bash 5 from launchd
I have the following launchd agent: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/...
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