Startup items on the Mac

http://blog.petermares.com/2012/02/05/startup-items-on-the-mac/Startup items on the Macpeter mares dot com

Ever needed to stop an application from launching on startup? Couldn’t remember all the places that OS X can put these little nuggets of automation?

A colleague of mine put this together and passed it on to me.

Since I have been on this particular merry-go-round before as well, I figured I’d just put it into a blog post in case I (or anyone else) ever needed a reference point:

Applications that run on Startup:

/Library/StartupItems

plist items running on startup:

/Library/LaunchDaemons

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons

Applications that launch on User Login:

* First check your “Login Items” for that user account within the Account settings of System Preferences, then:

~/Library/LaunchAgents

/Library/LaunchAgents/

/System/Library/LaunchAgents/

And it’s nix so don’t forget:

crontab -l

and:

sudo crontab -l

Kernel Extensions:

In the command line:

kextstat

Check Login and Logout Hooks

for Login

for Logout

or see both with:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print