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macosmongodblaunchd
user173938
user173938

Reputation:

How to identify the source of what com.apple.launchd is attempting to run

The system log on my Mac Mini is showing this error in the system log:

Mar  7 17:51:18 My-Mac-mini com.apple.launchd[1] (org.mongodb.mongod[432]): posix_spawn("/opt/local/bin/mongod", ...): No such file or directory
Mar  7 17:51:18 My-Mac-mini com.apple.launchd[1] (org.mongodb.mongod[432]): Exited with code: 1
Mar  7 17:51:18 My-Mac-mini com.apple.launchd[1] (org.mongodb.mongod): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

I have install MONGODB using Brew, and it works properly.

I have used LOCATE to attempt to track the source of the launching PLIST (I guess).

How do I track the source of what Apple's "launchd" is attempting to run?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5014

Answers (2)

prodigitalson
prodigitalson

Reputation: 60413

Hmmm... did you have it installed with Macports at one time? Cause that looks like the location for the ports installation of it (whereas i would expect brew to put it in /usr/local). If that is the case then try doing

sudo port unload mongodb

and that should unload the posts specific plist which is probably registered to load at boot time. If you're going to use Brew id probably set about clearing out ports completely.

Upvotes: 0

Gordon Davisson
Gordon Davisson

Reputation: 126028

You can search the LaunchDaemons folders for that job label:

grep -Rl ">org\.mongodb\.mongod<" /System/Library/LaunchDaemons /Library/LaunchDaemons

(Note: the backslashes and angle-brackets in the search string are needed to avoid false matches, and if you don't have them wrapped in double-quotes, you'll get unexpected results.)

If it's installed using the standard conventions, it should be in /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mongodb.mongod.plist, but this command should find it whatever it's named.

Once you've found it, you can disable it with:

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mongodb.mongod.plist

(Or whatever the actual file path is.) If you want, you can also remove the file, but the -w option makes the unload permanent so that isn't really necessary.

Upvotes: 7

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