On 21 août 2013, at 11:29, Quinn The Eskimo! <eski...@apple.com> wrote:
> Also, I have to stress that not even launchctl is enough to satisfy all > install, upgrade and uninstall scenarios. You can read about it in this old > thread. > > <https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/launchd-dev/2010-February/000741.html> > > Over the years I've tried various workarounds for this (like the "bsexec" > stuff in the afore-mentioned post) but none of them are satisfactory. > Specifically, they: > > o always seemed like a hack > > o never worked with pre-login launchd agents > > o have broken on recent systems [1] > > I'll repeat the take-home message from that post: > > [...] there's only one way to solve the "first install problem" > that's guaranteed to be compatible in the long term: force a restart. What about the "launchctl asuser" command? Seems helpful here, although it still feels kind of like a hack. Thomas
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