Two years ago I wrote about a shell script that I used with cron to keep 'critical' applications running. Some of the commenters suggested that I "should" be using launchd. There are times when I ...

For whatever reason, the bug from 10.9 mavericks of ntpd not synchronizing seems to persist into 10.11 (a dirty upgrade, not a clean install), with drifts up to 7+ minutes, between rounds of unticking ...

I compiled a unix daemon written for debian/bsd. It seems to want to spawn a second instance when launched with launchd plist, regardless of whether I put the plist in /Library/LaunchAgents or ...

The fine folks at macresearch.org have put out an interesting tutorial that walks through setting up launchd and rsync to do automatic backups whenever a specific external drive is mounted. Loyal ...