launchctlmacos
I have several services set up in launchctl and they all start at boot and restart automatically whenever they stop for any reason. That's great so far.
But sometimes I want one of the services to quit and not restart for a while.
Is there a recommended way to do that apart from removing the service from launchctl (which also stops it immediately, which I don't want to do)?
As I understand it, your Internet sharing might be interfering with your bootd configuration, specially given that you're assigning static addresses to the Raspberry πs.
Once you have the dhcp server running, you can create routes for them. If your wifi is on en1, and we assume your gateway for en1 is 172.16.0.1, you could do something like
sudo route add 192.168.2.0/24 172.16.0.1
which will cause packets coming from 192.168.2.0 to 192.168.2.255 to go through your wifi's gateway.
See, for instance, Add a permanent static route to Mac OS X on how to automate it.
You can create a service like this:
Then give it a shortcut from System Preferences.
There is a delay of maybe 0.1 - 1 s before Automator services are run, and at least on my installations of 10.7 and 10.8, the shortcuts for services didn't always work until I hovered over the services menu from the menu bar. You might also use FastScripts to assign a shortcut to the script, or use a private.xml like this with KeyRemap4MacBook:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_SHELL_TERMINAL</name>
<url type="shell">osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal"' -e 'do script ""' -e activate -e end</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<item>
<name>test</name>
<identifier>test</identifier>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F5, ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_SHELL_TERMINAL</autogen>
</item>
</root>
If others look for a way to open Terminal and only create a new window if there are no existing windows, you can use a private.xml like this with KeyRemap4MacBook:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<vkopenurldef>
<name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_TERMINAL</name>
<url>file:///Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app</url>
</vkopenurldef>
<item>
<name>test</name>
<identifier>test</identifier>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F5, ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_TERMINAL</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Or if you have bought the Powerpack for Alfred 2, you can create a workflow like this:
Best Answer
I found a way to do it. I added the following to the plist file.
Instead of
I made it
Just setting KeepAlive to false would interfere with the job starting at all. (It was presumably waiting to be called by someone.) But KeepAlive's status can also be determined at runtime. This service now restarts automatically when it quits for no good reason (i.e. when it is killed) but not when it quits for a reason (i.e. was shut down regularly). This is what I need.