Autostart on Mac OS X - nosmokingbandit/watcher GitHub Wiki

Autostart on the Mac

As a local user

Create a file called net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist in your ~/Library/LaunchAgents directory with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>watcher</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/bin/python</string>
        <string>watcher.py</string>
        <string>--daemon</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/opt/watcher</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Change line 21 to the absolute path of your watcher folder Make sure your watcher folder matches your user permissions (otherwise the launchd service might fail to start):

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /opt/watcher (change this path to the path of your watcher folder from above)

In Terminal:

To enable the daemon: launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist

To disable the daemon: launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist

Enjoy! This will automatically start watcher when you login

As an admin user

Create a file called net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist in your /Library/LaunchAgents directory with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>watcher</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/bin/python</string>
        <string>watcher.py</string>
        <string>--daemon</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/opt/watcher</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Change line 21 to the absolute path of your watcher folder In Terminal:

To enable the daemon: sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist

To disable the daemon: sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist

Enjoy! This will automatically start watcher when your machine boots