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/Library/LaunchDaemons ignored #30

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engineer-plus-plus opened this issue Jan 17, 2024 · 1 comment
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/Library/LaunchDaemons ignored #30

engineer-plus-plus opened this issue Jan 17, 2024 · 1 comment

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@engineer-plus-plus
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It appears that KnockKnock straight up ignores the things in ~/Library/LaunchDaemons, ~/Library/LauchAgents and the like. And that's the first place that gets poluted with startup items. Why doesn't KnockKnock report on stuff there?
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Can you provide more information?
...as this definitely should not be the case!

  1. The code here, in the shared item enumerator should take care of those directories:
NSString * const LAUNCHITEM_SEARCH_DIRECTORIES[] = {@"/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/", @"/Library/LaunchDaemons/", @"/System/Library/LaunchAgents/", @"/Library/LaunchAgents/", @"~/Library/LaunchAgents/"};
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(Note, AFAIK, there is no ~/Library/LaunchDaemons ...as daemons run as root, and thus are found in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons or /Library/LaunchDaemons/)

  1. On macOS 13+ such items are also enumerated via the "Background Task Management" plugin.

If you are seeing specific items being missed please let me know, and I'll look into that ASAP :)

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