[reeprflame]

Hey all,
I am not all that familiar with the launch process of OS X, and namely the iPhone. I am trying to get a script, or alternatively a command, executed ONLY at startup. Here is the problem I am solving:

SpringBoard crashes on me after boot where the touchpad I/O stops working inside any application. The solution to my problem is to SSH in, run a `ps -A`, and kill -9 <process of SpringBoard> So I wrote a script to do the same thing (or a simple `killall SpringBoard` that runs *once* at boot is also sufficient). Cron jobs are not sufficent because if I need to restart my phone at any time of day, well cron jobs are useless and I don't want springboard restarting every 2 min, for example.

So, I am trying to figure out how to use launchd or launchctl to do this (I'm assuming this is my best bet). Any ideas?

[Egeste]

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[spasticsurgeon]

One thing I found interesting was that the boot scripts of the iPhone and Touch are identical, and thus when starting a Touch in verbose you notice several iPhone-only processes starting and subsequently failing because they require iPhone-only software. :-) sorry I couldnt be of more help!

[BlackWolf]

well, I looked it up once and the startup scripts are in some way related to /System/Library/LaunchDaemon/ ... the .plist files in there represent an application to be executed at startup. I tried adding an application by myself once but although I thought I did everything right it never worked. But you have to look there ...

[Egeste]

Originally Posted by BlackWolf

well, I looked it up once and the startup scripts are in some way related to /System/Library/LaunchDaemon/ ... the .plist files in there represent an application to be executed at startup. I tried adding an application by myself once but although I thought I did everything right it never worked. But you have to look there ...

There is a solution to this - take a look at this article.

So basically, you write the script, create a launchd plist config file, add the file to /Library/LaunchDaemons and then load the file using

launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/tld.domain.subdomain.plist

I have an example of a DynDNS updater script on my website that uses this method.

-Egeste