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I want to start a shell script during the boot of a MacOS (14.2.1) machine. But the scripts is executed only when I log in, not directly after the system has started. I wrote a plist definition like this: > ls -l /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.foobar.justLog.plist -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 397 Jan 25 21:06 /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.foobar.justLog.plist > cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.foobar.justLog.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.foobar.justLog</string> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>Program</key> <string>/usr/local/bin/justLog.sh</string> </dict> </plist> > The referenced shell script looks like this: > ls -l /usr/local/bin/justLog.sh -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 105 Jan 25 14:46 /usr/local/bin/justLog.sh > cat /usr/local/bin/justLog.sh #!/bin/bash while true ;do echo "Started script $0 as user $(whoami) in $PWD ($(date))" sleep 120 done > Then I shutdown the mac and restarted it at 21:46:40. I waited until 21:48:00 before I logged on with my default user. I was expecting my script to be run after the machine startet. But when I check the files in /var/log/com.apple.xpc.launchd I see that there are no entries from launchd during the initial boot. It looks like launchd does nothing before the first user logs in. That's not the behaviour I would expect from a script to be run when the system boots. > for i in 5 6 7 8 ;do echo "inspecting minute: 21:4$i"; grep "2024-01-25 21:4${i}:" /var/log/com.apple.xpc.launchd/launchd.log{.2,.1,} /var/log/* 2>/dev/null | wc -l ;done inspecting minute: 21:45 11747 inspecting minute: 21:46 0 inspecting minute: 21:47 0 inspecting minute: 21:48 21150 > Can anyone explain why my script is not executed before I log in?