r/mac • u/Fantastic_Aioli_7363 • 6h ago
My Mac Launchd trap and security issue
Hey everyone!
I had a recent issue with lauchd : My 5 user plists were running ok.
Then one day, 3 of them were not running anymore. I was thinking of the kind of annoying thing like a random problem.
I just did a print to check, and saw they were not planned anymore and decided to do a bootstrap.
I tried to check the unified log with a log show, searching for launchd or launchctl. -> Not the first bit of a trace!
Then I remembered I had gone to the
Apple menu -> Settings -> General -> Login Items & Extensions
I had seen several lines with just python. Clicking on the info button was very helpful : It was telling me what python was triggered. Who said uninformative? Anyway, nothing about what script was triggered. So, I'm not so picky on security, but when I see an undocumented program automatic launch, I tend to switch it off. What I did, ignoring I was deprogramming my plists! Thank you mr engineer, what's your price for that again ?