Launchd and periodic: mail does not get sent

Hello together,
I have the same problem as reported in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6241179
According to the thread the problem seemed to be fixed in Mac OS X 10.5.2 but I have it in 10.5.5
In short:
Whenever periodic scripts are started by launchd they run but no email is sent even if there is a file /etc/periodic.conf set up to send email.
Instead an entry appears in /var/log/system .log:
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.periodic-daily[307]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 363 PPID 1 sendmail
If the periodic jobs are started in terminal with "sudo periodic daily" the mail is sent by the local mail system.
Does anyone know, how to fix this.
Thanks in advance
Martin

Jerry Levan1 wrote:
Any suggestions on how to fix the problem?
Jerry
The problem:
launchd is killing the mail process before it can send the email because it considers it a stray child process.
That is what this line is telling you:
"Nov 21 03:16:47 mbp com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.periodic-daily1904): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 1969 PPID 1 sendmail"
The solution:
I added the following to my com.apple.periodic-daily.plist and the daily run output started being mailed to me again...
<key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
<true/>
Like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.
com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.periodic-daily</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/periodic</string>
<string>daily</string>
</array>
<key>LowPriorityIO</key>
<true/>
<key>Nice</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>15</integer>
</dict>
<key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
Make sure you unload and load com.apple.periodic-daily.plist after you make the change so it is seen by launchd...
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-daily.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-daily.plist
Further details at:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html#SECCAREFULWITHTHATFORKEU GENE
Cheers,
Darrell

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