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Disabling services (daemons, agents) with launchctl
I want to get rid of some system services completely.
I turned off sip with csrutil disable.
Then following command
sudo launchctl disable com.apple.cloudphotod
Gave me an unexpected answer:
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Leave SSH daemon running permanently
I, for some reason, cannot seem to find a google search which actually answers this question. I have a mac, and I would like to have the ssh daemon running in the background at all times, so I can ssh ...
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What are all these tvOS services?
I noticed Apple's tvOS broadcasting no less than 7 mDNS PTR-RRs (via Bonjour, I presume):
+ Apple TV._airplay._tcp.local
+ Apple TV._mediaremotetv._tcp.local
+ Apple TV._companion-link._tcp.local
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Shove installed a launch daemon or agent popup window, what is it?
Please check the following screenshot:
Today, I suddenly have this popup window warning. I have no idea what it is.
Basically I have three questions.
(1) Is this BlockBlock app warning? I have no ...
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Why can an app create daemons on the fly without sudo permission and how to stop it?
First, I come from Linux so there are many things which confuse me such as daemons.
I installed VOX.app and it has some kind of agents and cloud-related processes which can be started automatically. ...
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How to disable the "locate" command in Mac OS?
According to this article, I can use this command:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist
To enable "locate" command to find files. However, recently I find this ...
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Configuring application servers to run as service daemons?
Mac 10.9.5 here. I am trying to figure out how to configured my machine to run an executable (Java) app as a service/daemon, so that it is always running so long as the machine is on. Hence, this app ...
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Programmatically catch app opening / closing
Is it possible, via an AppleScript, a background service or daemon, or any other programmatic way, to catch the following events:
a specific app (eg Aperture, Excel ...) being launched,
an app being ...
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Does changing a daemon's plist file extension prevent it from being loaded?
I particularly want to disable:
/private/etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist.disabled, but in general for any daemon.
Does changing its plist extension prevent it from loading?
In the past I ...
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