[OS X] Managing server start/stop

[Former user]

Following-up from this

Probably a good idea if installer would install server startup in login item teh standard way, as in: http://www.macworld.com/article/2047747/take-control-of-startup-and-login-items.html

it seems it can be achieved by the following command:

defaults write loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary -array-add '{ "Path" = "/Applications/YourAppName.app"; "Hide" = 0; }'

Actually Console app at startup should propose to launch server, if not available, and could enable (checkbox) to re-install in login items. One menu could enable to stop/kill the server process too.

[Petr Nejedly]

It looks like this is only for Applications, not daemons, though.

[Petr Nejedly]

Yes, it is important. People were having problems with the server icon bouncing, blocking the system to shutdown, etc - and that is all due to the fact that mac doesn't like it when an app has no UI (ie is only a running process / server).

This also means there is less difference to the other supported OSes.

[Petr Nejedly]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53101626/how-to-notarize-an-app-bundle-containing-helpers-embedded-in-it

[Petr Nejedly]

https://github.com/TheInfiniteKind/appbundler/