launchctl list status 出现异常的解决方法

从stackoverflow上转载一篇文章，讨论了在Mac OS中通过launchctl list发现plist运行的Status出现异常的解决方法，其实就是安装launchcontrol图形工具。

launchcontrol是一款强大的后台服务管理进程launchd辅助工具，能够帮助我们自定义并管理各种System/Global/UserAgents。可以查看程序的运行状态，是否出错，以及非常详细的出错提示信息。

what does launchd status 78 mean?? why my user agent not running??

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I want to run a unison sync service running in the background whenever I login. But the status code of my agent is 78. I don't know why, I tried some fix posted online, but it just doesn't work. What's the problem?? below is the plist file for my service. Label syncmyproject StandardOutPath /var/log/syncmyproject.log StandardErrorPath /var/log/syncmyproject.log RunAtLoad KeepAlive Debug EnableGlobbing ProgramArguments /usr/local/bin/unison -auto -batch -repeat watch ~/home/project ~/project launchd  launch-agent share improve this question asked  Dec 11 '15 at 3:15 Aaron Shen 2,116 4 17 41

You can grep this file for possible clues as to what's wrong: /var/log/system.log –  Nick  Dec 1 at 19:52 add a comment

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up vote 11 down vote accepted	I read man launchctl, find 78 means function not implemented. It doesn't help much. Finally I make it work, actually there were errors in the plist, I recommend to install the brew cask install launchcontrol, which is a gui tool for launchctl, it can help detect errors and trouble shooting. share improve this answer answered  Dec 11 '15 at 6:38 Aaron Shen 2,116 4 17 41
	1   Thanks for this. launchcontrol helped solve my issue. For the record I had status 78 and my issue was that my script did not start with an interpreter e,g; #!/bin/sh –  getthemike  Feb 26 at 14:37 For me the problem was, that the log directory was not accessible by the current user. –  d4Rk  Oct 25 at 10:16 add a comment

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