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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Disable Launchd based daemon sudden termination upon shutdown
I'm running my own daemon under macOS Sierra and High-Sierra, and get unexpected behavior upon shutdown. according to the manual of daemon life cycle, it says that ...
If the system is being shut ...
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MirrorDisplays error every 30 seconds in system.log
I'm seeing an error every 30 seconds in the system log, using the Console app, complaining about MirrorDisplays service only running for 0 seconds.
Nov 5 22:45:22 computer com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (...
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What is "hidd"?
I tried to find some details about the daemon hidd but only found information about a Linux daemon where it is the human interface device daemon.
Is this the same function in macOS?
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What is touristd?
In macOS Sierra there is a new daemon touristd.
What is touristd and what is it used for?
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How to make mosquitto broker auto-start on Mac OS (without homebrew)?
I understand that using homebrew, a plist file will be provided and a user can use launchctl to install that plist file.
But, I am not using homebrew(nor macport). I built mosquitto binaries directly ...
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What is parsecd?
The internet is not very satisfactory when it comes to this question, I found one somewhat related question here where someone says allowing parsecd internet access via Little Snitch made their ...
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Where to find documentation for apple services (agents, daemons) and status codes?
I have looked all over the place with incredible frustration - what should be basic information I can't find anywhere. Whatever I do find, is single items of information (and not what I was looking ...
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What is the 'deleted' daemon in macOS?
Since installing macOS 10.12 I noticed a flood of messages from deleted in the logs. I haven't been able to find any information about this daemon. Could anyone enlighten me what this does?
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Is there a way to throttle nsurlsessiond/cloudd?
I have been looking for a way to permanently throttle these two processes. By default, they are all or nothing processes killing my network connection unless I manually "pause uploads" for iPhotos (...
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How to restart Bluetooth service from command line
On Linux, if one wishes to restart the Bluetooth service, they simply launch a terminal and issue the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
What is the equivalent on Mac OS X? I ...
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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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How do I kill a daemon and not have it open up again if I can't find it in the LaunchAgents or LaunchDaemons?
So I think I downloaded a program from Avatron called Airconnect. I'm not sure, but their website was purple when I looked it up. Anyway, now everytime I check my activity monitor, com.avatron....
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Launchd based daemon exit with abnormal code 1, without crash log
I've seen many questions that relate to specific daemons/applications that exit on this same exit code (=1). All scenarios seems unique and unconnected.
I created a daemon of my own, and also got the ...
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How should daemons tell users about errors?
I wrote a bash script that backs up certain files on my computer. To automate the running of the script, I set up an associated daemon that runs the script every day.
There are certain instances ...
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CommCenter (from CoreTelephony.framework) is eating 600+ MB of my RAM, why do I even need it?
I do not have a MacBook laptop running OS X 10.11.3.
As far as I understand, CoreTelephony.framework is about cellular networks, so it might be useful on phones, for example. But the laptop obviously ...
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