Questions tagged [daemons]
macOS, which is a Unix system, uses daemons. A daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.
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how to prevent numerous background daemons from harming gaming FPS (or other intense foreground workload performance)?
One or another of the various macOS background daemons that comes with the operating system is always popping up and using a ton of CPU in the background. This is generally slightly bothersome, but ...
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What's this service on macOS 12.3?
What is this service /usr/libexec/remotepairingdeviced??
NMAP
PORT STATE SERVICE
49152/tcp open unknown
lost -i :49152
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
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How can I trigger a mac daemon on an event other than scheduling a time interval?
I have made a few Mac daemons in the past. They either run at launch or run at a specific time interval, for example, once every hour.
I would like to know if it's possible to run a program on an ...
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errSecInternalComponent when using codesign from within a daemon
I have my own running daemon application that listens to a network port and executes some different commands based on the coming request. All is working fine except when trying to execute the ...
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How to know what `nsurlsessiond` is downloading
I have nsurlsessiond downloading at about 1.5 MB per second for a full day now, making other internet activities on my laptop less responsive. I tried killing the nsurlsessiond but it just comes back ...
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How to make usb to shut down Mac Mini
I have an old Mac mini and I want to use it as my home server. I don't want to connect any display, keyboard or mouse to it. I will be using it as a wifi router and local server. But I will shut down ...
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'photoanalysisd' running constantly on Catalina, even though I do not use Photos.app [duplicate]
I recently upgraded from Mac OS Mojave to Catalina. The other day, I noticed that a process called photoanalysisd has been running constantly at nearly 100% CPU usage for various consecutive days. It ...
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Automatically relaunch VirtualBox VM when it crashes
Is there some way to automatically relaunch a VirtualBox VM if it happens to crash?
My VM occasionally crashes and has to be relaunched which I can do manually when I'm at my computer, but I'd like ...
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AutoSync Time periodically
My Catalina weirdly have drifting time, sometimes 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 19 minutes (in 1-2 hours), today it's drifting 40 minutes (in 4 hours). Is there any brew package/daemon that automatically ...
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How can I make a LaunchDaemon run an app at login?
I have an internally-maintained macOS app for my macOS Catalina-based enterprise environment which:
Must run as root (it accesses a privileged device API)
Runs in the background without a UI (via ...
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What is local.blackjack from Netstat?
When running netstat I noticed the suspicious name blackjack. I wonder if it's malware.
PROMPT> netstat -v
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address ...
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Does trustd leak information about users' software usage to Apple and/or third parties?
When discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS ...
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Fresh Catalina install (10.15.6) generates flood of diskarbitrationd and deleted daemon messages. How to stop them?
Since doing a fresh install of Catalina (10.15.6) last week, my machine's Console has been flooded with messages from the deleted daemon and diskarbitrationd. The deleted daemon is consuming ...
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Reinstall Cups after unloading/removing its LaunchDaemon
On one of our laptops, we had popups about printer settings update 200 times per day.
It was getting really annoying and so without thinking about it enough, I've unload and remove cups service.
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Launch Daemon for NodeJS App Won't start on reboot
I've created the below launch daemon to run a nodejs program on startup (tiddlywiki in this case):
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<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//...
