Lingon

I have heard your pleas, dear TUAWers, and I present unto you a graphical interface for interacting with launchd in Tiger. If you'll recall launchd is a small process that runs in the background on OS X and watches the system. When certain criteria are met, like a file is modified, it triggers an event (like the running of a script). This can be very useful for a variety of things, but it required launching the Terminal, something not all Mac users are comfortable doing.

Enter Lingon, it provides a clean UI for creating config files for launchd and controlling them. If you don't believe me check out Systems Boys' overview on the subject.

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I have heard your pleas, dear TUAWers, and I present unto you a graphical interface for interacting with launchd in Tiger. If you'll...

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nullcreation

Unfortunately Lingon doesn't seem to work if you have FileVault enabled, kicking out "Your home directory is on a volume that does not support privileged helper tools".

December 14 2005 at 2:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scott McNulty

Darn it! I hate when I make numerous mistakes. :) I'm fixing them all now, and I'm giving you a star.

November 15 2005 at 3:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

creanium

i'm not normally one to harp on someone for making mistakes in a blog, but Scott, you mention launchd three times and each time it's typed differently (lauchd, launchd, launcd) ... also, what's wrong with this line? (hint: I noticed 2 errors off the bat) " ... it triggers and event (like the running onf a script) ..."

November 15 2005 at 3:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply