A program called GitHub Conduit (part of GitHub for Mac) runs in the background on my computer. If I kill it, launchd
restarts it.
The launchd
manpage lists every location in which it looks for jobs at startup:
$ man launchd
[snip]
FILES
~/Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the user.
/Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the adminis-
trator.
/Library/LaunchDaemons System-wide daemons provided by the admin-
istrator.
/System/Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by Mac OS X.
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons System-wide daemons provided by Mac OS X.
I checked each of these folders, and GitHub conduit doesn't have a file in any of them. I also checked Users & Groups preferences, and it's not listed in my login items.
FWIW, launchctl list com.github.GitHub.Conduit
outputs this:
{
"Label" = "com.github.GitHub.Conduit";
"LimitLoadToSessionType" = "Aqua";
"OnDemand" = true;
"LastExitStatus" = 15;
"PID" = 596;
"TimeOut" = 30;
"ProgramArguments" = (
"/usr/libexec/launchproxyls";
"com.github.GitHub.Conduit";
);
"EnableTransactions" = true;
"MachServices" = {
"com.github.GitHub.Conduit" = mach-port-object;
};
"PerJobMachServices" = {
"com.apple.CFPasteboardClient" = mach-port-object;
"com.apple.tsm.portname" = mach-port-object;
"com.apple.axserver" = mach-port-object;
};
};
Question
What makes launchd
start GitHub Conduit at startup and how could I stop it if I wanted to?