TN not working from launchd

[Vartkat]

Please check everything that applies to your issue:

• [X ] I looked in closed issues and it has not already been answered
• [ ] My issue appeared with a terminal-notifier update
• [ ] I'm using a tool that uses terminal-notifier (guard-notifier, node-notifier...)

To help us debug your issue please include:

• the macOS version you use 10.10
• terminal-notifier version 2.0
• how did you install terminal-notifier (binary download, homebrew, ruby gem...)? Homebrew
• step-by-step reproduction instructions Make a simple bash script which fires terminal-notifier (in /usr/local/sbin), make a launchd plist file calling this script with

  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
  <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
  <dict>
         <key>PATH</key>
         <string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin</string>
  </dict>
  <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
  <true/>
  <key>GroupName</key>
  <string>admin</string>
  <key>InitGroups</key>
  <true/>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>YOUR_PLIST_NAME</string>
  <key>Program</key>
  <string>YOUR_SCRIPT_PATH</string>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
  <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
  <string>/tmp/YOUR_PLIST_NAME.stderr</string>
  <key>StandardOutPath</key>
  <string>/tmp/YOUR_PLIST_NAMEn.stdout</string>
  <key>StartInterval</key>
  <integer>3600</integer>
  <key>UserName</key>
  <string>YOUR_USERNAME</string>
  <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
  <string>/Users/YOUR_USERNAME</string>
  </dict>
  </plist>

in /Library/LaunchDaemons (note - StartInterval with a value of 3600 fires the script every hour)

To run the script load the plist $ sudo launchctl load PLIST_FILE To stop it unload the plist file.

Using terminal-notifier the whole script gets stuck as if it was asleep (no error). I had to kill terminal-notifier so that the bash script resume (terminal-notifier was a sub-process of the script).

I also tried replacing TN with osascript display notification but that doesn't show anything on the user screen.

I thought it was because launchd launched processes are running as root but with UserName it should run as the named user.

Notting suspicious show up in the Console.

[Vartkat]

I had installed terminal-notifier using brew, according to https://superuser.com/questions/734563/terminal-notifier-fails-silently-when-called-from-launchd I have to run terminal-notifier from the app bundle, so I did an alias of /usr/local/Cellar/terminal-notifier/2.0.0/terminal-notifier.app in in /Applications folder, it doesn't work better, I tried an ln -s but that neither does it run (it says too manu symlinks). If I do a ps -axw | grep term I see that terminal-notifier is stuck, I have to kill this process so that the script resumes.

[julienXX]

Hi @Vartkat maybe the solution described in https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier/issues/148 can help.

[Vartkat]

The solution in #148 by @applebit924 seems a bit cryptic to me. I understand he's notifications are not fired by his main script but by a script fired by a watchdog. The watchdog runs from /Library/LaunchAgents and not from /Library/LaunchDaemons, but for the rest I don't see terminal-notifier in there unless he renamed it "Software Update Notifications" and I don't understand why he's building a notification script each time he needs to show a notification. Seems very complicated.

[gregneagle]

launchdaemons run as root. I would not expect root to be able to post an NSUserNotification.

[Grayon]

This works for me. Use 'open' command. open terminal-notifier.app --args -message "123"

[Droid43]

@Vartkat A GUI can't be launched by a daemon in macOS. 'open' command can work well. open -a terminal-notifier --args -title "test"