On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
Thanks Ron. Man ... was there a exodus of Microsoft programmers to
Apple? That set up makes about as much sense as the Windows
Registry. Caveat: I'm no Windows expert I just have to deal with a
dozen or so servers every so often.
launchd is not nearly as opaque as the Windows Registry. It's not
System-V, true, but it's reasonably well documented and the plist
files are easily understood.
The launchctl command works in a manner similar to systemctl command
found on Fedora and other bleeding-edge Linux distributions.
A startup system that can track dependencies and do parallel starts is
the way Linux heading, so getting a handle on Mac's launchd system
will get your mindset ready for Linux' future.
--
Paul Heinlein
heinl...@madboa.com
45°38' N, 122°6' W
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