Why does a LaunchDaemon stop when user logs out?

Question

Hi,
We have an application that uses an older version of Jetty that I am trying to configure as a LaunchDaemon on OS X 10.7.5
I've created a org.mortbay.jetty.plist and placed this in the /Library/LaunchDaemons, set permission 644 and owner root:wheel. This can be loaded via launchctl and all is happy. I can connect to the server and browse the pages on the server. However, if I log out, the service stops responding and only starts responding when I log in again. It appears to stop jetty and then restart it when I log in.
As this is being run as the root user, I would not have expected a user logout to stop this process. From what I can see there are no per-user overrides for this.
Upgrading Jetty is not currently an option.
Any help/ideas would be appreciated.
Dave
<?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>Disabled</key>
        <false/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.mortbay.jetty</string>
        <key>ServiceDescription</key>
        <string>Jetty 5</string>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <true/>
        <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
        <dict>
            <key>JAVA_HOME</key>
            <string>/Library/Java/Home</string>
        </dict>
        <key>WorkingDirectory</key><!-- required! -->
        <string>/usr/local/myApp/Jetty/extra/OSX/</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/usr/bin/java</string>
            <string>-Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp</string>
            <string>-Djetty.port=2000</string>
            <string>-Djetty.home=/usr/local/myApp/Jetty/</string>
            <string>-Djetty.logs=/usr/local/myApp/Jetty/logs/</string>
            <string>-d32</string>
            <string>-jar</string>
            <string>../../start.jar</string>
            <string>/usr/local/myApp/Jetty/jetty.xml</string>
        </array>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string>root</string>
     <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
     <string>/tmp/launchd_myprogram_stderr.log</string>
     <key>StandardOutPath</key>       
     <string>/tmp/launchd_myprogram_stdout.log</string>
      </dict>
</plist>

Answer 1

Thought I had an answer...but no.
Maybe this reference will help:  Daemons and Services
Message was edited by: g_wolfman