Running as a daemon (OS X) about git-dude HOT 13 CLOSED

In Linux I added the script to my Startup Applications (Gnome). Have you tried that?

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I'm not OSX expert but maybe you could try running it on startup with launchd? @ml suggested this as the best way to run it in OSX.

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I meant launchctl, not launchd.

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Working on this now. If I can get it working I'll send a pull request your way if you like, might be useful to other OS X users out there.

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Unfortunately it seems like running this from launchd isn't working: it's able to run the script as would crond but the output isn't properly formatted and is not sent to growl-notify. Perhaps there's another way?

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Unfortunately I can't help you as I'm not using OSX.

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This is my solution on OS X ( still kind of new to mac myself ). Let me know what you think, don't think it's something to add to the project though.

#!/bin/bash
#
# run-gd - Simple script to run git-dude on mac-osx login
#

watchdir=$(git config dude.watchdir)

if [ -n $watchdir ]; then
    git dude $watchdir  
fi

I created a simple script inside my ~/.git-dude/ directory called run-gd, make it exec

$ sudo chmod +x ~/.git-dude/run-gd

Add a directory to watch in your git config

$ git config --global dude.watchdir ~/repo-directory

In OS X click

Apple->System Preferences->Users & Groups->[Select User]->Login Items 

and add the shell script and mark it as hidden on launch.

Use cmd+shift+g to search for a hidden folder while in Finder.

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While @StehlikC's solution works, I decided to roll my own launchctl solution, and the only issue I ran into involved scoping of the PATH environment variable (my console log was littered with "command not found" errors for git, sleep, date, and basename).

While the PATH environment variable is being set in my ~/.bashrc file (which is sourced from my ~/.bash_profile file) the ~/.bashrc file is only invoked for shells which are not login shells, so this won't work. I assumed launchctl could use the directories specified in my /etc/paths file, but that wasn't the case. launchctl also didn't observe the files in /etc/paths.d which contain path entries...

To my knowledge there are two "acceptable" routes to take for scoping the PATH environment variable for GUI/loginwindow processes:

1. Use a ~/.launchd.conf file which calls the setenv environment variable function to insert the PATH environment variable name into the current environment list.
2. Use a special property list file located at ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist which the loginwindow application looks for to set user session environment variables.

I chose the latter of the two, and here's the contents of the property list file I created:

<?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">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
     <key>PATH</key>
     <string>/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/git/bin</string>
</dict>
</plist>

• /bin is needed for the date and sleep commands, as well as where (per the Readme instructions) git-dude has been installed
  • I actually cloned the git-dude repository to a local sandbox area and symlinked the git-dude bash script into /usr/local/bin so my PATH string also needed to include /usr/local/bin
• /usr/bin is needed for the basename command
• /usr/local/git/bin is where the git binary lives

A second property list file is needed to rig up launchctl to kick off the git-dude "daemon" at login. The file should live in ~/Library/LaunchAgents and use reverse domain name notation (I went with com.sickill.git-dude.plist) and contain the following:

<?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">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
     <key>KeepAlive</key>
     <true/>
     <key>Label</key>
     <string>com.sickill.git-dude</string>
     <key>LowPriorityIO</key>
     <true/>
     <key>ProgramArguments</key>
     <array>
          <string>git-dude</string>
          <string>/Users/<username>/.git-dude</string>
     </array>
     <key>RunAtLoad</key>
     <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

• Replace <username> with your OS X user account name
• Depending on where you have git-dude installed, you may need to prefix the git-dude command with a full path
• If the repositories you want git-dude to watch don't live (or aren't symlinked) in the ~/.git-dude directory, specify the correct path

To test everything without constantly rebooting, you can run the following commands and watch your console log using Console.app:

$ launchctl setenv PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/git/bin
$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sickill.git-dude.plist

If the PATH environment variable is incorrect (you'll know because the console log will contain "command not found" errors) make any necessary changes and run the setenv command again. If something is wrong with the property list file for configuring git-dude you can unload the file (change load to unload in the second command above), make necessary changes, and run the load command again.

One nice thing is that once you've got everything set up for git-dude you can use the same configuration steps to run other scripts using launchctl at startup.

Hope this helps someone. Cheers!

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Thx for your input @StehlikC and @digitaljhelms !

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No worries. Might be worth shoving this into a wiki page...

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I've put these instructions on Wiki: https://github.com/sickill/git-dude/wiki/Daemonizing

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Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4267 indicates my instructions for using an environment.plist file with launchd is no longer valid for OS X Lion v10.7.4 or higher; I wasn't aware of this change as I jumped over Lion v10.7.4 in a recent upgrade from Lion v10.7.3 to Mavericks v10.9.

Anyway, my approach using launchd still works, but is a lot less cumbersome as it all comes down to the PATH environment variable; as long as that's setup properly to include the paths where git, git-dude, date, and sleep live, you should be golden. RTFM for help: man path_helper

I've updated the wiki page on Daemonizing accordingly.

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Awesome, thanks!

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