Hello,
I want to create a Launch Agent that triggers an executable upon changes in the /Applications folder.
The launch agent is normally a loaded but not running, and by adding /Applications to the WatchPath parameters in the plist, launchd is supposed to trigger the process, that will run and exit once done.
Sadly this seems not to be working uniformly. The script only works on one machine, in the the others the execcutable is never run. There seem not to be any meaningful differences in the launchd or system logs.
The same identical plist works perfectly when changing something in the user's ~/Applications folder. The script does its job and logs are visible.
Is there an undocumented limitation specifically for the /Applications folder that prevents luanchd to observe it in the WatchPaths? Maybe SIP not allowing access? But why does it work on my machine?
Here is an example of the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.company.AppName.LaunchAgent.plist:
<?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>AssociatedBundleIdentifiers</key>
<string>com.company.AppName</string>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<false/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.company.AppName.LaunchAgent</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/username/Library/Application Support/com.company.AppName/Launch Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/LaunchAgent</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<false/>
<key>WatchPaths</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/username/Applications</string>
<string>/Applications</string>
<string>/Network/Applications</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
With the executable being a standard app bundle in /Users/username/Library/Application Support/com.company.AppName/Launch Agent.app
Thank you
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