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USEREVENTAGENT(8)         BSD System Manager's Manual        USEREVENTAGENT(8)

NAME
     UserEventAgent -- utility to manage user callbacks in response to events

SYNOPSIS
     UserEventAgent [-vdflh] [directory]

DESCRIPTION
     The UserEventAgent utility is responsible for loading plugins that provide for system response to user-generated usergenerated
     generated events.  It is not intended to be run directly, but rather started by the system.  The few
     options it has are intended as debugging aids.  Typically, allowing the system to start UserEventAgent
     by itself, without any additional options, is the ideal configuration.

     The options are as follows:

     -v    Verbose mode.  Error and status messages are written to stderr.

     -d    Debug mode.  Each plugin will be forked off into its own child process, to aid debugging.

     -f    Force load.  Normally, the plugin directory must be owned by the root user and wheel group; this
           flag overrides that check.

     -l sessiontype
           Some jobs only make sense in certain contexts. This flag instructs UserEventAgent to only load
           plugins for the given session type; for more info, see the documentation for launchctl(1)

     -h    Help.  This displays usage information.

     Optionally, a directory may be specified after all options on the command line; this will cause this
     directory to be used instead of the default, /System/Library/UserEventPlugins.

Mac OS X                      September 20, 2006                      Mac OS X