How my LaunchD demon was setup

I switched to crontab now, and it seems to work much better, but before I was trying to run periodic job with this daemon setup.

From first-time-setup script

HOME="${HOME:=/Users/max}"
LIBRARY=$HOME/Library
LOGS="$LIBRARY/Logs"


# How my LaunchD demon was setup

echo "* symlinking launch agent for hourly job"
mkdir -p $LIBRARY/LaunchAgents
mkdir -p $LOGS/HourlyJob
ln -nsf "$CLOUD_CONFIGS"/LaunchAgents/* "$LIBRARY/LaunchAgents"
if launchctl list com.max.hourly &>/dev/null; then
  echo "  * hourly job daemon is already loaded (skipping)"
else
  echo "  * loading hourly job daemon"
  launchctl load -w "$LIBRARY/LaunchAgents/com.max.hourly.plist"
fi

Separate hourly-reload script

#!/usr/bin/env bash
launchctl unload -wF /Users/max/Library/LaunchAgents/com.max.hourly.plist && \
launchctl load -wF /Users/max/Library/LaunchAgents/com.max.hourly.plist

App folder hierarchy (in the Configurations dir) HourlyJob.app/Contents/MacOS/HourlyJob <- this is the bash script

(I added this app to Security & Privacy -> Full Disk Access right from this path.)

The LaunchAgent config in the LaunchAgents/com.max.hourly.plist (in the Configurations dir)

<?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>Label</key>
  <string>com.max.hourly</string>

  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/Users/max/Documents/Configurations/HourlyJob.app/Contents/MacOS/HourlyJob</string>
  </array>

  <key>Nice</key>
  <integer>1</integer>

  <key>StartInterval</key>
  <integer>3600</integer>

  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>

  <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
  <string>/Users/max/Library/Logs/HourlyJob/HourlyJob-stderr.log</string>

  <key>StandardOutPath</key>
  <string>/Users/max/Library/Logs/HourlyJob/HourlyJob-stdout.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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Code snippets in this post are covered by 0BSD License.

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