/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.barebones.bbedit.plist ???

[Jim McIntosh]

I have a file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.barebones.bbedit.plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.barebones.bbedit.plist dated May 21, 2010. Can it be removed or does it still provide a function?

I am running version 11.6.3 (397042) of BBEdit.

Thanks for your help.

[Christopher Stone]

On Feb 11, 2017, at 21:35, Jim McIntosh <j...@mcintosh.ws> wrote:

I have a file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.barebones.bbedit.plist

Can it be removed or does it still provide a function?

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Hey Jim,

That's a question for support.

But I'm not aware that BBEdit itself has ever installed such a file.

What's in it?

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Best Regards,

Chris

[Tom]

My only BBEdit-related file in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ is com.barebones.authd.plist. Its job is to run /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.barebones.authd, and I guess it has to to with the handling of root-owned files, not sure though.

Maybe your file is a differently named variant of the same?

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Tom

[Sam Hathaway]

On 11 Feb 2017, at 10:35 PM EST, Jim McIntosh wrote:

> I have a file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.barebones.bbedit.plist
> in /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.barebones.bbedit.plist dated May 21, 2010.
> Can it be removed or does it still provide a function?

Jim,

I'd be interested to see what the contents of that file are.
-sam

[Iain]

I have this same file and am also wondering what it is for. Here are the contents of the plist:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
            <key>EnableTransactions</key>
            <true/>
            <key>Label</key>
            <string>com.barebones.authd</string>
            <key>ProgramArguments</key>
            <array>
                    <string>/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.barebones.authd</string>
            </array>
            <key>Sockets</key>
            <dict>
                    <key>com.barebones.authd.socket</key>
                    <dict>
                            <key>SockPathMode</key>
                            <integer>438</integer>
                            <key>SockPathName</key>
                            <string>/var/tmp/com.barebones.authd.socket</string>
                    </dict>
            </dict>
    </dict>
    </plist>

No idea what that SockPathMode really means though, the man page remains mysterious:

    SockPathMode <integer>
    This optional key specifies the mode of the socket.

Regards,
iain

[Rich Siegel]

On 1/28/18 at 9:30 AM, iain...@gmail.com (Iain) wrote:

>I have this same file and am also wondering what it is for.

"authd" is the privileged helper that BBEdit uses to support
operations that require privilege escalation, such as open/save
of files that you don't otherwise have permission to read/write;
and installation of the command-line tools.

R.
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Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
sedate me.

[iain barnett]

Thanks, Rich, much appreciated.

Regards,
iain

[john springer]

Ha ha.  8 years later, I have the same question.  Is the 2010 com.barebones.plist in launchdaemons obsolete?

[Rod Buchanan]

FWIW, I have a clean install of BBEdit (w/command-line tools) on a new MacBook Pro and there is no such file on my system.

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Rod

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[Rich Siegel]

On 22 Jan 2025, at 16:48, john springer wrote:

> Ha ha. 8 years later, I have the same question. Is the 2010
> com.barebones.plist in launchdaemons obsolete?

It's still a question for support :-), but yes.

R.

>
> On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 4:33:51 PM UTC-8 Christopher Stone wrote:
>
>> On Feb 11, 2017, at 21:35, Jim McIntosh <j...@mcintosh.ws> wrote:
>>
>> I have a file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.barebones.bbedit.plist
>>
>> Can it be removed or does it still provide a function?
>>

>> ------------------------------

>>
>> Hey Jim,
>>
>> That's a question for support.
>>
>> But I'm not aware that BBEdit itself has ever installed such a file.
>>
>> What's in it?
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>

[David Viard]

I don’t have it on my Mac