Re: alert from a daemon?

FROM : Adrian Ross
DATE : Tue Jan 22 03:38:09 2008

>> I guess I could write a separate
>> executable solely for this task and install it as an agent, but that
>> seems a bit over the top.

>
> It's not over the top, it is precisely what you must do.


Thanks everyone for this and similar advice. I'll use an agent that 
runs at login and periodically after that. Good to have GUI access too 
- I'll probably use the Sparkle framework to manage updates.

The technote Jens linked to is great. Odd that Apple doesn't integrate 
these more closely with their guides.

I'm supporting 10.4 as well as 10.5 so a global login item isn't an 
option. I'm looking into using /Library/LaunchAgents; apparently these 
"might be launched in the context of non-GUI login session" so I have 
some more reading to do in this area - presumably there's some way to 
detect this state of affairs.

Adrian