launchctl - Mac OS X launchd control utility

launchctl(1) BSD General Commands Manual launchctl(1) NAME launchctl -- Interfaces with launchd SYNOPSIS launchctl [subcommand [arguments ...]] DESCRIPTION launchctl interfaces with launchd to load, unload daemons/agents and gen- erally control launchd. launchctl supports taking subcommands on the command line, interactively or even redirected from standard input. These commands can be stored in $HOME/.launchd.conf or /etc/launchd.conf to be read at the time launchd starts. SUBCOMMANDS load [-w] paths ... Load the specified configuration files or directories of config- uration files. -w Remove the disabled key and write the configuration files back out to disk. unload [-w] paths ... Unload the specified configuration files or directories of con- figuration files. -w Add the disabled key and write the configuration files back out to disk. start joblabels ... Start the specified jobs by label. stop joblabels ... Stop the specified jobs by label. Jobs may restart automatically if demand driven. list List all of the jobs loaded into launchd. setenv key value Set an environmental variable inside of launchd. unsetenv key Unset an environmental variable inside of launchd. getenv key Get an environmental variable inside of launchd. export Export all of the environmental variables of launchd for use in a shell eval statement. getrusage self | children Get the resource utilization statistics for launchd or the chil- dren of launchd. log [level loglevel] [only | mask loglevels...] Get and set the syslog(3) log level mask. The available log lev- els are: debug, info, notice, warning, error, critical, alert and emergency. limit [cpu | filesize | data | stack | core | rss | memlock | maxproc | maxfiles] [both [soft | hard]] With no arguments, this command prints all the resource limits of launchd as found via getrlimit(2). When a given resource is specified, it prints the limits for that resource. With a third argument, it sets both the hard and soft limits to that value. With four arguments, the third and forth argument represent the soft and hard limits respectively. See setrlimit(2). stdout path Set the standard out file descriptor to the given path. launchd stderr path Set the standard error file descriptor to the given path. launchd shutdown Tell launchd to prepare for shutdown by removing all jobs. reloadttys Tell launchd to reread /etc/ttys. This option may go away in a future release. umask [newmask] Get or optionally set the umask(2) of launchd. help Print out a quick usage statement. FILES ~/Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the user. /Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the adminis- trator. /Library/LaunchDaemons System wide daemons provided by the admin- istrator. /System/Library/LaunchAgents Mac OS X Per-user agents. /System/Library/LaunchDaemons Mac OS X System wide daemons. SEE ALSO launchd.plist(5), launchd.conf(5), launchd(8) Darwin September 30, 2004 Darwin