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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Login/Logout script Post 302374184 by tlarkin on Monday 23rd of November 2009 04:55:27 PM
Old 11-23-2009
You may want to look at launchd then. Launchd is the 1 daemon that rules them all.

You basically create a laund item (.plist) and you can have it execute your scripts as log in hooks or log out hooks or as you determine it. Then put your launchd item in the respective location.

/Library/LaunchAgents - will act as a log in hook for all users

/Library/LaunchDaemons - system wide start up item - when it boots it will run regardless of if anyone has logged in or not

~/Library/LaunchAgents - runs when this specific user logs in.

Note that all launchd items run as root, so if you need it to run as a user you will have to script it to run as that user.

Now, once you have created it, you can use launchctl to load it, and if you use the -w option it is permanent and will load every time. You can even set times and dates it triggers.

for more references see this: Mac OS X Manual Page For launchd(8)
 

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xgridctl(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       xgridctl(8)

NAME
xgridctl -- Xgrid Daemon Control Interface SYNOPSIS
xgridctl [target] action OPTIONS
The optional target is one of the following: controller perform the action for the xgricontrollerd daemon agent perform the action for the xgridagentd daemon The action is one of the following: status print status for the chosen daemon, or print status for all daemons if no target is specified start enable and start the chosen daemon, or start all enabled daemons if no target is specified stop disable and stop the chosen daemon, or stop all daemons if no target is specified restart stop and then enable and start the chosen daemon, or stop all daemons and then start all enabled daemons if no target is speci- fied RETURN VALUES
0 completed succesfully 1 an error occurred FILES
/usr/libexec/xgrid/xgridagentd agent daemon /usr/libexec/xgrid/xgridcontrollerd controller daemon /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xgridagentd.plist agent launchd control file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xgridcontrollerd.plist controller launchd control file EXAMPLES
Print status of agent and controller: $ xgridctl status Start the controller and set it to run at startup: $ xgridctl controller start Stop the agent and set it to not run at startup: $ xgridctl agent stop SEE ALSO
xgrid(1) launchd(8) HISTORY
This program was first introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger". It was inspired by apachectl(8). The "on" and "off" actions were deprecated in Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". BUGS
Bug reports can be sent to bugreport.apple.com Mac OS X April 2, 2009 Mac OS X
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