LaunchDaemon - How to create a plist.

Question

First of all guys... Fantastic product ;-)

I'm trying to make a plist LaunchDaemon using the sweep command line.

Although the LaunchDaemon executes, the Logs show this entry,

Command line qualifiers are: -exclude

I'm not sure if the directories using the -exclude option are actually excluded.

The ProgramArguments are as follows:

Item 1 /usr/bin/sweep

Item 2 /

Item 3 -exclude

Item 4 /dev

Item 5 /net

Item 6 /tmp

Item 7 /Volumes

According to the plist documentation, this is how it is supposed to be coded. Please

can you confirm whether the directories following the -exclude will be excluded and

achieve the desired objective.

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Agile · Accepted Answer

Have you attempted running that command from the terminal to verify?

/usr/bin/sweep / -exclude /dev /net /tmp /Volumes

You are correct that --skip-special will not ignore all of those; it just ignores the special BSD paths. Other relevant extended flags include: --stay-on-machine will avoid remote mount points, and --stay-on-filesystem will provide the same result as excluding /Volumes. As you can see from running sweep -h, --follow-symlinks, --stay-on-machine, --skip-special, --backtrack-protection and --preserve-backtrack are all enabled by default; the others are not.

Please also take note of order of operations for command-line flags; -include and -exclude should be at the end; the rest can be anywhere with the last one listed taking precedence.