I want to create a LaunchDaemon on OSX Mavericks for my Gitblit, this is my file (org.gitblit.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>KeepAlive</key>
<true/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>org.gitblit.plist</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/bin/java</string>
<string>--baseFolder</string>
<string>data</string>
<string>-jar</string>
<string>/Applications/gitblit/gitblit.jar</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
It's not working, but when I try java -jar gitblit.jar --baseFolder data
on /Applications/gitblit everything works fine. Am I missing something?
The Gitblit GO distribution comes with a shell script gitblit.sh
that will work for this purpose. This is the version of the LaunchAgent plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.gitblit.plist
I used.
Note the addition of the WorkingDirectory
key, as well as log files in case of errors.
<?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>KeepAlive</key>
<true/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>org.gitblit.plist</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/bin/bash</string>
<string>/Applications/gitblit/gitblit.sh</string>
</array>
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>/Applications/gitblit/</string>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/Applications/gitblit/stdout.txt</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/Applications/gitblit/sterr.txt</string>
</dict>
</plist>