OK. My bad. The Readme had it all, and I missed it. My unconscious Classic-Mac programmer seems to filter out python scripts still…
Thanks, it works now. > On 11 בינו׳ 2016, at 10:44, Motti Shneor <su...@bezeqint.net> wrote: > > Hi. Excuse this novice question (I see previous questions relating to > SMJobBless that start off where I need to finish…) > > I need to develop an OS-X daemon (in c++) that must run privileged. I intend > to deploy it embedded in a System-Preferences panel, that will launch it > using the SMJobBless() API. > > Naturally, I read Apple “Deamons and Services programming guide” (which left > me with more questions than I initially had) and downloaded the simple but > enlightening “SMJobBless” sample project. > > Alas - the sample doesn’t function. It builds, runs and the application asks > me for admin credentials, then it always spits the same error: > >>>> 2016-01-11 10:35:52.580 SMJobBlessApp[83383:3929331] Something went wrong! >>>> CFErrorDomainLaunchd / 4 > > I started thinking there should be some specific code-signing involved, to > allow one application to launch privileged daemon, but nothing is documented > about this both in the sample itself, nor in the SMJobBless() API referene. > > I started playing with signing both the App and the daemon with my own > developer ID (the sample project itself has no code-signing defined for the > application, and some arbitrary code-signing set for the daemon itself). > > (I also found and examined 3 or 4 other related code-samples, that seem to be > based on this, some with XPC communications between the app and its daemon, > some without) but all give that exact same error message above, when the app > attempts to SMJobBless() its daemon. > > Now — any heads-up or hint will be greatly appreciated. > > > Motti Shneor. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
