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dredmorbius on July 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ t...

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to have this experience.

I've not mucked much with OSX admin, but the times I have, it's been fairly ugly. PLISTs particularly so.

AceJohnny2 on July 10, 2017 [–]

Oh god, XML config files where order matters >_< "oh but plutil can convert them to json!" Oh but it does so in-place, so I hope you copied the file before converting it, because launchd certainly can't read JSON plists...

/facepalm

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