> On Nov 19, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Greg Neagle wrote:

>> Andrew:

>> Thanks for this update.

>> I've looked through the release notes and tried various things, but
>> still haven't puzzled out how to actually get iHook to work over the
>> loginwindow.  I can run it as a login or logout hook, but can't get
>> it to run otherwise when the loginwindow is displayed.

> (Apologies to those of you who don't care about iHook. I'm looking  
> to move all iHook things to SF.net in the near future, at which  
> point discussion of iHook can move to an iHook mailing list.)

> The short answer is that you need to create a LaunchAgent for  
> iHook. A dummy example can be found here:

> <http://www.ihook.org/files/edu.umich.iHook.loginwindow.plist>

> Just installing (after local modifications for paths and options)  
> this LaunchAgent in /Library/LaunchAgents on Leopard will get you  
> something that behaves like running iHook out of cron on pre-10.5  
> systems.

> I thought it would take more work to get iHook running at arbitrary  
> times on Leopard, but that turns out not to be the case. Using  
> launchctl, you can force an iHook run:

> root# launchctl start edu.umich.iHook.loginwindow.plist

> In fact, because you can execute iHook this way, you don't  
> necessarily have to rely on the StartCalendarInterval in the  
> LaunchAgent to get scheduled runs. Your old scripts, executed by  
> periodic or by cron, can simply use the launchctl command.

> Getting all of these changes into the Radmind Assistant's bundled  
> scripts will take some work. I'd be grateful if someone were able  
> to dedicate some time to updating them for the next release while I  
> work on the application itself.

> andrew
> rsug