hostconfig process

[R.L. Grigg]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:58 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:21 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote:
>>> If indeed efficiency of time was of value to you, you might find  
>>> that reading about how things operate, even if just that section  
>>> of a book or a man page, might well reward itself and payoff with  
>>> interest compared to time spent chasing unrewarding  
>>> misconceptions. That is to say it's the lazy man that reads once,  
>>> and then thinks correctly.
>>
>> Translation: Dan doesn't know the answer, and couldn't/wouldn't  
>> articulate it even if he did know.
>
> Many things Dan may be, but misinformed on this topic is not one of  
> them.

I didn't say misinformed, I said 'articulate'. Such people also  
resist offering any useful information at all costs. Reminds me of  
Elton Mayo's 'psychoneurotic'. Google it.

>
> You are seeing a change in hostconfig and assuming that this change  
> causes your service to launch.

Nope, I wanted find out how to change hostconfig and kickstart some  
process to cause the changes to go into effect without rebooting. I  
naively thought that would be a 'piece of cake' for the world's  
premiere OSX sysadmins to answer. Again, my bad!

>   this is not true.  Even at boot, all this line does is allow the  
> process to be launched by its agent (whatever agent that might be  
> as define, if you read the man pages, by the appropriate plist).   
> This is an important distinction.
>
> Where I not 3000km from home, I'd have more to say on this, but I  
> can say that if you don't understand how launchd works, you are  
> going to almost certainly get yourself into a barrel of trouble  
> rushing over a rather high water fall.
>
> man launchd is not that complicated and points you the files that  
> are important (under FILES) and the other related commands to look  
> at (under SEE ALSO).
>
> Lambasting Dan, as fun as that may be, is not going to help you  
> understand what your problem was and/or is and will not do anything  
> at all to help you in the future.  Read the man pages.
>
Well I'm not exactly just sitting around with my thumb up my arse!  
BTW, 3 kind souls have informed me of what I was trying to  
understand, but *offline*. I can see why! :(

So long, and
Thanks! for all the fish.
Russ