Your placement of waitUntilExit is blocking the runloop which needs to be running to service the background notifications you requested. If you want async behavior then you cannot wait on the task (at least not in the way you are currently attempting).
Review the following code example... http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Moriarity/listing5.html -Shawn _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]