[PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 17:58:04 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>> The biggest issue right now is the init system.  How does Mac OS do it.
>> The Redhat based systems use SysV, init.d, etc.  I thought the BSD
>> derivatives used an init.d or rc.d Couldn't figure out how to
>> start/stop/reload a service.
>
> See the launchctl(1), launchd.plist(5), and launchd(8) man pages. OS X has a
> concept of daemons that are system-wide and/or per-user.

Yeah, totally different world....
http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/17/track-down-all-startup-login-script-and-application-launches-in-mac-os-x/

They're all over the place, and a great many are not based on shell
scripts or init/rc conventions.

-Ronabop



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