Stray process killed by launchd

Question

Hi there,
I am trying to make launchd restart a Java daemon in my Mac. I finally made my plist file work. I use a shell script that kills old java process and starts it from scratch. It works but right after the shell script finishes executing launchd kills the java process with the following error:
Mar 26 21:28:42 Micaias com.apple.launchd[1] (com.skios.smtpserver[8377]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 8383 PPID 1 bash
Can I make launchd not to worry about that process? That is the pourpose of the plist file... here it is by the way:
<?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>Disabled</key>
<true/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.skios.smtpserver</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/bin/sh</string>
<string>/Applications/ServEngineSMTPd/startSMTPserver.sh</string>
</array>
<key>StartInterval</key>
<integer>5</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
Thanks for any help/directions
Ignacio

Answer 1

try adding the following to your plist
<key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
<true/>
then your launch daemon should look like this
<?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>Disabled</key>
<true/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.skios.smtpserver</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/bin/sh</string>
<string>/Applications/ServEngineSMTPd/startSMTPserver.sh</string>
</array>
<key>StartInterval</key>
<integer>5</integer>
<key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>