has anyone figured out how to get boinc to startup automatically in 10.4 using apple's new boot procedure? seems to me one could add a .plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons for boinc, but i'm not familiar enough with the way things work to figure it out. i think doing it this way would be a lot better than adding it to a users login items. particularly for multi-user computers like mine.

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Here is a plist for starting boinc with launchd in OS X Tiger 10.4 that seems to work for me.
To have boinc run at startup put this in a file /Library/LaunchDaemons/edu.berkeley.boinc.plist

I don't know what the debug key does, but it seemed like a good idea since i'm new to this whole launchd thing.

Note that I have a symlink /Library/boinc/boinc_current which points to my latest version of the boinc binary.
The paths for working dir and log files may need to change based on your local configuration.

Good luck!



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN
http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd >
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>net.jonfram.boinc.plist</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Library/boinc/boinc_current</string>
</array>
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>/Library/boinc/ByHost</string>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/Library/boinc/ByHost/boinc.log</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/Library/boinc/ByHost/boinc.log</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<false/>
<key>ServiceDescription</key>
<string>Runs the boinc distributed computing program</string>
<key>Debug</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

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