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larry
Asked: 2011-01-13 01:31:52 +0800 CST

I can not cd "LaunchAgents" on macbook

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After installing mongdb on my macbook-pro, it tells me:

If this is your first install, automatically load on login with:

cp /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/1.6.3-x86_64/org.mongodb.mongod.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist

If this is an upgrade and you already have the org.mongodb.mongod.plist loaded:

launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist
cp /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/1.6.3-x86_64/org.mongodb.mongod.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist

Or start it manually:

mongod run --config /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/1.6.3-x86_64/mongod.conf

But after I copy org.mongodb.mongod.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents, it tells me:

launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist
launchctl: Couldn't stat("/Users/why/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist"):
Not a directory

And also I can not cd "~/Library/LaunchAgents", but I can ls the directory!

~/Library/LaunchAgents is a strange directory on mac.

mac installation

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Did you make sure that you created the ~/Library/LaunchAgents directory first? You may have just ended up copying /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/1.6.3-x86_64/org.mongodb.mongod.plist to a file called ~/Library/LaunchAgents

    Try ls -la ~/Library/LaunchAgents and see what the output is. It should look like:

    [why@why ~]$ ls -la ~/Library/LaunchAgents
total 40
drwxr-xr-x   7 why  why   238 Jan 11 09:47 .
drwx------+ 68 why  why  2312 Sep 28 19:39 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 why  why   543 Jan 11 09:47 org.mongodb.mongod.plist

    If instead you see:

    [why@why ~]$ ls -la ~/Library/LaunchAgents 
-rw-r--r--  1 why  why  543 Jan 11 09:47 /Users/why/Library/LaunchAgents

    Then you copied the MongoDB plist to a file called LaunchAgents. Here's how to remedy that:

    rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents
mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/1.6.3-x86_64/org.mongodb.mongod.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist
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