VERY simple Launchd plist not running my script...

Question

Hello everyone, I'm trying to figure out why my launchd script is not working. It is extremely simple, but I am new to the mac environment and trying to get accustomed. Here's my plist. I know ProgramArguments is required, so I just put the script path in there...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt;
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.tomcat.plist</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/opt/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/bin/startup.sh</string>
</array>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<false/>
</dict>
</plist>

When I try to run launchctl load it seems to load properly (in that it doesn't give me any error messages), but the script doesn't seem to be executing, even on reboot.

I've used all the examples I've found online and I can't figure out why this isn't running my script on start up.

Answer 1

To make your script run automatically when you call launchctl load, you need to add :-

<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>

Alternatively you could use :-

launchctl start com.tomcat.plist