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Mac OS X launchd plist to run PHP fcgi

automatthew (Matthew King) — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:51:36 GMT





http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd >



	

	Labelcom.automatthew.php

	ProgramArguments

	

	        /opt/php/bin/php

	        -b 127.0.0.1:9000

	        -q

	

	EnvironmentVariables

	

	        PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN

	        4

	

	Debug

	Disabled

	OnDemand

	RunAtLoad

Use Launchd to run Rsnapshot daily

SimonDorfman (Simon Dorfman) — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:42:57 GMT

// run rsnapshot daily at 3am











        Label

        local.my-mac.rsnapshot-daily

        ProgramArguments

        

                /opt/local/bin/rsnapshot

                daily

        

        StartCalendarInterval

        

                Hour

                3

MySQL Launchd item for Mac OS X Tiger

jstetser (Jake Stetser) — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:14:06 GMT

(Originally posted at Unquiet)

I had to reinstall Mysql because it wasnâ€™t one of the things I backed up before erasing my hard drive. Since Iâ€™m now running Mac OS X 10.4 â€œTigerâ€?, I decided to set it up to start when the system boots, but the system for creating startup items has changed slightly. So I saved the following xml in /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.Mysql.plist:



             "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "

        http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

    

    

        Label

        com.mysql.Mysql

        OnDemand

        

        ProgramArguments

        

                /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe

        

        ServiceDescription

        Mysql 4.1 Database Server

        UserName

        mysql

        WorkingDirectory

        /usr/local/mysql

Note that I'm using the official OSX distribution of MySQL... but with a few changes to match your database location, you can get this to work with other installs (fink, darwinports, etc).