On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Andrew Long wrote:

> 
> On 4 Jun 2011, at 23:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 4, 2011, at 17:23, Mark Hattam wrote:
>> 
>>> Having just done port updates for dbus and dovecot2 this evening, they both 
>>> printed out similar guidance messages about startup items.
>>> 
>>> But I don't understand why dbus uses "launchctl load" whereas dovecot uses 
>>> "port load" ... is there a difference?
>> 
>> <snip/>
>> 
>> dbus has two startup items, so it can't use MacPorts code to create them, 
>> and furthermore needs one of them started as root, the other not as root. 
>> Therefore it prints its own instructions.
> 
> This may be why my gnome-session fails to open a dbus connection - I did both 
> the launchctl's under sudo; how can I 'undo' the sudo for 
> freedesktop.dbus-session and redo it as my local user?

$ sudo launchctl unload /path/to/launchd_item.plist
$ launchctl load /path/to/launchd_item.plist


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)




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