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launchk

Rust

A Cursive TUI that makes XPC queries & helps manage launchd jobs.

Should work on macOS 10.10+ according to the availability sec. in the docs.

Install

Binaries are available via brew tap:

brew tap mach-kernel/pkgs
brew install mach-kernel/pkgs/launchk

Features

Use : to enter command mode, / to enter filtering mode, and any of sguadl for filtering by [system, global, user, agent, daemon, loaded]. Ctrl-U to clear, Tab to complete, Enter to submit.

  • Poll XPC for jobs and display changes as they happen
  • Filter by LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons in scopes (fsnotify watched):
    • System (/System/Library/)
    • Global (/Library)
    • User (~/)
  • load
  • unload
  • dumpstate (opens in $PAGER)
  • dumpjpcategory (opens in $PAGER)
  • procinfo (opens in $PAGER, does not require root!)
  • edit plist in $EDITOR with support for binary plists
  • csrinfo show all CSR flags and their values

xpc-sys

While building launchk, XPC convenience glue was placed in xpc-sys.

[See its README here]

Credits

A big thanks to these open source projects and general resources:

Everything else (C) David Stancu & Contributors 2021