[macosx-unix] launchd [was: amanda backup]

[Jan Schaumann]

Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 16, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> >launchd does not seem to allow you to specify a specific order -- I
> >believe that that is actually somehow argued to be an advantage of
> >launchd.
> 
> Instead of ordering, you specify dependencies via Uses/Requires/ 
> Provides keys.

Interesting.  That's a useful thing, which I'm used to from NetBSD's rc
system.  Where is this documented?  (Doesn't seem to be in
launchd.plist(5), and none of the existing files in
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons has an example.)

-Jan

P.S.:  FWIW, I added an entry to root's crontab to unload and reload the
amanda launchd plist via '@reboot'.  Since cron kicks is later, after
the volumes have been mounted, this actually works, but it's obviously a
hack.

-- 
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