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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Fine-tuning "Open safe files after downloading"
Is it possible to fine-tune the "Open safe files after downloading" setting in Safari? For example, to make Safari open files like ".ical" et. al., but not Zip-files.
If macOS has no built-in support ...
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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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How do I start the docker daemon on macOS?
I am using macOS 10.14.6 and docker info shows me that the docker daemon is not running.
How do I start the docker daemon from terminal?
I have not found any information on doing so anywhere. On ...
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What is rapportd and why does it want incoming network connections?
I've just updated to the latest MacOS 10.13.2 and after restarting, my machine asked me to allow incoming network connections for "rapportd".
After blocking it and checking in the firewall config, I ...
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How to access a launch daemon's values/ system defaults value
So I am trying to silence the "Your Disk is Almost Full" notification from a mac running Mojave, as right now it pops up way too frequently and it is so annoying.
I followed all answers from this ...
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What is "usernoted" and why is it eating my CPU?
For the past couple of weeks, a process identified as usernoted appeared to "take over" my machine after a few hours of use, eating over 99% of available CPU.
Force quitting the process doesn't help; ...
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Is there a way to prevent apps like Google's from adding services/daemons to mac? [duplicate]
Companies like Google and others love to install daemons/services on
~/Library/LaunchDaemons
Sonoma alerts me when this happens, but I want to be able to prevent bloat services like this even ...
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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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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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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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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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opendirectoryd taking up 1/4 of the cpu and driving fans crazy on MacBook Air
Since a couple of days my 2011 13" MBA (i5, 1,7Ghz) has a very strange issue which I don't know how to get rid of.
Every now and then (sometimes more times a day) a process called opendirectoryd ...
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Daemons or other processes responsible for dictation in 10.8?
Dictation in Mountain Lion is a nice little feature that works great for me. However I often need to switch between dictation languages, so going through the System Preferences is way too many clicks ...
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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 is process lsd on iOS?
There is a process running on my iOS device (7.1.2) called 'lsd'. The file is in /usr/libexec/lsd. What is it and what does it do?
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iPad 2 (7.2.1)
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