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By Sketch » Posted on March 14, 2007 - 7:04am

Any thoughts on the best way to kill launchd that runs in a user’s space after they logout?

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Is “The Mac Guy” for a private university, and proud Mac geek since 1994

Sketch on March 14, 2007 - 2:44pm

In the end I’m just using “killall -KILL -u $USER” in a logout hook.
I tried more gentle signals TERM and HUP, but they didn’t do it.

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