Big brother network monitor bb4

Question

Hello,
I have successfully installed the bb client 1.9i on a mac mini running OS X 10.5.5. I can startup and shutdown bb manually, by typing at the terminal:
# ./runbb.sh start/stop/restart.
I am having troubles with the startup script. According to the Mac documentation for leopard, they suggest using launchd for the startup scripts. Has anyone been able to successfully get the bb startup script working under OS X leopard? I need to be able to do everything from the command line.
Thanks,
Jonathan

Answer 1

I was launching as a user who was not root, but had all privileges root has. User nobody has sudo rights to runbb.sh to not require a password.
I tried starting the plist file as root and I get a different error in the system.log file.
Nov 12 14:03:35 jade com.cq.bb[89731]: Starting Big Brother Script
Nov 12 14:03:35 jade com.apple.launchd[1] (com.cq.bb[89731]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 89732 PPID 1 sh
Below is the bb.plist file (modified again) along with the commands I am using and the outputs.
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$ cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/bb.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>UserName</key>
<string>nobody</string>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<false/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.cq.bb</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/local/bin/runbbstartme.sh</string>
<string>start</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>/usr/local/bb/bb</string>
</dict>
</plist>
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$ sudo -u root launchctl list | grep bb
- 0 0x100bb0.dashboardadvisoryd
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$ sudo -u root launchctl load bb.plist
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$ sudo -u root launchctl list | grep bb
- 0 com.cq.bb
- 0 0x100bb0.dashboardadvisoryd
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$ sudo -u root launchctl start com.cq.bb
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$ sudo -u root launchctl list | grep bb
- 0 com.cq.bb
- 0 0x100bb0.dashboardadvisoryd
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$ ps -ef | grep bb
501 89760 89260 0 0:00.00 ttys000 0:00.00 grep bb
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$ tail /var/log/system.log
Nov 12 14:05:09 jade sudo[89747]: sysadmin : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Library/LaunchDaemons ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl list
Nov 12 14:05:16 jade sudo[89749]: sysadmin : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Library/LaunchDaemons ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load bb.plist
Nov 12 14:05:16 jade com.cq.bb[89750]: Starting Big Brother Script
Nov 12 14:05:16 jade com.apple.launchd[1] (com.cq.bb[89750]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 89751 PPID 1 sudo
Nov 12 14:05:17 jade sudo[89752]: sysadmin : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Library/LaunchDaemons ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl list
Nov 12 14:05:24 jade sudo[89754]: sysadmin : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Library/LaunchDaemons ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl start com.cq.bb
Nov 12 14:05:24 jade com.apple.launchd[1] (com.cq.bb): Throttling respawn: Will start in 2 seconds
Nov 12 14:05:26 jade com.cq.bb[89755]: Starting Big Brother Script
Nov 12 14:05:26 jade com.apple.launchd[1] (com.cq.bb[89755]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 89756 PPID 1 sh
Nov 12 14:05:26 jade sudo[89757]: sysadmin : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Library/LaunchDaemons ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl list
jade:LaunchDaemons sysadmin$