Different behaviors of NSTask within Debug and Release configuraton

Question

Hey there,
I am writing my first OSX application. It will be a starter helper for some daemons.
In order to start the daemons I am using NSTask but this class behaves completely different within the two build configurations (Debug and Release).
If I choose Debug - everything works fine, my daemon (apache) gets started. But if I choose Release, I get this error message in the log console:
Jan 11 22:50:49 Synthomat [0x0-0x682682].com.yourcompany.PAMP[24421]: httpd (no pid file) not running
I know, this is an apache specific error message. But why does it not appear when I choose the Debug environment? Are in Release some environment variables missing or so?
Here is my code part:
// get bundle path
binDir = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/Library/bin", [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]];
// compose command path
NSString *command = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/apachectl", binDir];
// run command
[NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath: command
arguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"start", nil]];
Any idea, anyone? - Thanks in advance

Answer 1

synthomat wrote:
My idea was to distribute a full web stack within my application. Thus there should't be touched other system directories or files except the ones in my application bundle.
Launchctl is similar to xinetd. You can run it in user space out of your own directories.
Its not the apache which comes with osx!
Is it the same one in XAMPP?