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mbhangui at gmail

Jun 16, 2009, 10:57 PM

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Help required for running qmail on Mac OS X 10.5.X

MacOS 10.5 uses launchd for starting, stopping and managing daemons,
programs and scripts.

Starting a service requires writing a .plist file in
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons

Is there anyone out here who has used launchd for starting svscan and has
written a .plist file which I can borrow?

--
Regards Manvendra - http://www.indimail.org

abansriyar at gmail

Jun 16, 2009, 11:10 PM

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Re: Help required for running qmail on Mac OS X 10.5.X [In reply to]

A few years back I had followed
http://www.dqd.com/~mayoff/notes/daemontools/macosx.html.

I am not sure this would work as I haven't used a Mac in a pretty long time.

Animesh Bansriyar

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Manvendra Bhangui <mbhangui [at] gmail>wrote:

> MacOS 10.5 uses launchd for starting, stopping and managing daemons,
> programs and scripts.
>
> Starting a service requires writing a .plist file in
> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons
>
> Is there anyone out here who has used launchd for starting svscan and has
> written a .plist file which I can borrow?
>
> --
> Regards Manvendra - http://www.indimail.org
>

mbhangui at gmail

Jun 16, 2009, 11:31 PM

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Re: Help required for running qmail on Mac OS X 10.5.X [In reply to]

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 23:10 -0700, Animesh Bansriyar wrote:
> A few years back I had followed
> http://www.dqd.com/~mayoff/notes/daemontools/macosx.html.
>
> I am not sure this would work as I haven't used a Mac in a pretty long
> time.

The above works on the older MacOS which did not use launchd. The plist
file now is a xml file

kyle-qmail at memoryhole

Jun 17, 2009, 7:40 AM

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Re: Help required for running qmail on Mac OS X 10.5.X [In reply to]

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On Wednesday, June 17 at 11:27 AM, quoth Manvendra Bhangui:
>MacOS 10.5 uses launchd for starting, stopping and managing daemons,
>programs and scripts.
>
>Starting a service requires writing a .plist file in
>/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
>
>Is there anyone out here who has used launchd for starting svscan and has
>written a .plist file which I can borrow?

Using launchd to run svscan is pretty redundant: they're designed to
do many of the same things.

I recommend using /etc/rc.local to run svscanboot. It works just fine
on my MacOS X 10.5 system.

If you insist on using launchd (e.g. if it helps the consistency and
maintenance of your system), I would suggest that you avoid using
svscan entirely. To get a good plist file, though, try using Lingon
(http://tuppis.com/lingon/).

~Kyle
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mbhangui at gmail

Jun 17, 2009, 8:35 AM

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Re: Help required for running qmail on Mac OS X 10.5.X [In reply to]

2009/6/17 Kyle Wheeler <kyle-qmail [at] memoryhole>

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> I recommend using /etc/rc.local to run svscanboot. It works just fine
> on my MacOS X 10.5 system.

Why did I not think of this before? This is so simple and I can use by
favourite editor and no cryptic xml.

>
> If you insist on using launchd (e.g. if it helps the consistency and
> maintenance of your system), I would suggest that you avoid using
> svscan entirely. To get a good plist file, though, try using Lingon
> (http://tuppis.com/lingon/).
>
> Thanks for the link for the editor above. Hopefully this will be useful if
I decide to use launchd

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