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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rpcsvchost
rpcsvchost(8) BSD System Manager's Manual rpcsvchost(8)
NAME
rpcsvchost -- hosting environment for DCE/RPC services
SYNOPSIS
rpcsvchost [options] service [service ...]
DESCRIPTION
rpcsvchost is a very simple environment for hosting DCE/RPC services. It loads DCE/RPC services from the list of plugins given as arguments,
binds to an appropriate set of endpoints and listens for protocol requests.
If service is not a relative file name, it is assumed to be the name of a dylib located in /usr/lib/rpcsvc.
OPTIONS
-debug, -nodebug
rpcsvchost will log debug information and may perform extra diagnostic checks. This option is typically only useful for debugging.
-endpoints BINDING [,BINDING]
This argument specifies additional endpoints that rpcsvchost should attempt to bind. BINDING must be a comma-separated list of
DCE/RPC binding strings that include both the protocol sequence and endpoint fields.
-help Prints a usage message and exits.
-launchd, -nolaunchd
Normally, rpcsvchost attempts to bind all the well-known endpoints specified by the service plugins. If there are no well-known
endpoints, it will bind new endpoints on all supported protocol sequences. The -launchd option disables this behavior and causes
rpcsvchost to check in with launchd(8) to obtain a set of sockets to bind as protocol endpoints.
Launchd sockets vended to rpcsvchost must be named with the appropriate DCE/RPC protocol sequence (eg. "ncacn_np").
-sandbox, -nosandbox
When this option is specified, the modules loaded by rpcsvchost will be run in a sandbox. rpcsvchost will attempt to intialize the
sandbox using the sandbox profile with the name com.apple.<module-name>.sb. See sandbox(7) for an overview of the sandbox facility.
-register, -noregister
When this option is specified, rpcsvchost attempts to register the loaded services with the DCE/RPC endpoint mapper.
-stdout Causes rpcsvchost to print log messages to standard output instead of the system log.
-wait-for-debugger
Causes rpcsvchost to wait for a debugger to attach after it has loaded and initialized its plugins. This is useful for debugging
instances of rpcsvchost that are launched by launchd(8).
DIAGNOSTICS
The rpcsvchost utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
launchd.plist(5), launchd(8), sandbox(7)
HISTORY
The rpcsvchost utility first appeared in Mac OS 10.7.
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