Mac OSX : Get a process/daemon status information
Problem :
You need to get status information about a process or daemon running on Mac OS X environment to determine if the process or daemon is still running. The information provided by Activity Monitor is just way too much information or you happen to ssh into your Mac OS machine with terminal without GUI. Is there a way to find out if the process or daemon is running or not?
Solution :
Apple has its own tool that replaces init, inetd or service found in other flavours of Unix/Linux. Use launchctl
to get the information you seek. launchctl
is the controlling tool for launchd
.
For example :
To find out the list of available service/process/daemon :
>sudo launchctl list
once you have the list you can query individual process for more information :
>sudo launchctl list com.apple.usbd
will give out :
{
"LimitLoadToSessionType" = "System";
"MachServices" = {
"com.apple.usbd" = mach-port-object;
};
"Label" = "com.apple.usbd";
"TimeOut" = 30;
"OnDemand" = true;
"LastExitStatus" = 0;
"PID" = 160;
"Program" = "/usr/libexec/usbd";
};
By Adam Ng
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