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chiggsy
Asked: 2010-11-15 23:21:00 +0800 CST

which daemons are running?

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Runing snow leopard, I'd like to find a way to say:

"Right now, this is what's is running and this is who is running it" I've enabled process accounting and auditing, which should tell me this, but I thought I'd ask here to see if there were other insights.

So, how can I quickly find out which daemons are running, besides using launchctl list? Or is there a way to modify that somehow to get a list of the running daemons?

osx-snow-leopard launchd

2 Answers

  1. ps aux

    in console :D

    OR

    top

    for a live view

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  2. Best Answer

    Apologies about the self answering, but the BSD/Mach semantics are below the launchd stuff.

    From the security manual:

    Listing Active Daemons and Agents on the System

    To see a list of the daemons managed by launchd, run the following command:

    $ sudo launchctl list

    Agents are programs that run in the background on behalf of a user, to provide services to that user. To see a list of the agents managed by launchd for you (since you are the current user), run the following command:

    $ launchctl list

    I highly recommend reading this manual, btw. Page 223 tells you how to disable the

    Remote Management and Screen Sharing daemons/agents.

    Running by default, no less.

    From "Snow Leopard Security Config v 10.6 available on the apple.com site.

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