Mac – Create a Daemon to Load App – Lab Core

Step 1 – Create a plist file. Save as something like com.TheAppName.plist

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt;
&lt;plist version="1.0"&gt;
&lt;dict&gt;
&lt;key&gt;Label&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;string&gt;app.TheAppName&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;key&gt;ProgramArguments&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;array&gt;
&lt;string&gt;/usr/bin/open&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;string&gt;/Applications/TheAppName.app&lt;/string&gt;
&lt;/array&gt;
&lt;key&gt;RunAtLoad&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;true/&gt;
&lt;key&gt;KeepAlive&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;false/&gt;
&lt;key&gt;LaunchOnlyOnce&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;false/&gt;
&lt;key&gt;StartInterval&lt;/key&gt;
&lt;integer&gt;3600&lt;/integer&gt;&lt;!-- seconds --&gt;
&lt;/dict&gt;
&lt;/plist&gt;

Step 2 – Copy plist to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/

Step 3 – Load the daemon

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.TheAppName.plist

Step 4 – Log off & Log on to test