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paul55391 · 05-31-2014, 02:45 PM

My calibre library is on an external drive connected to my Mac mini server. I've created a plist file (for starting calibre-server) in /Library/LaunchDaemons. When I restart the server I'm expecting launchd to read the plist file and start calibre-server; however, for some reason I need to manually start calibre-server using "launchctl load calibre-server.plist" in Terminal. I'm suspecting that the external drive is not mounted when launchd processes the plist file and so the calibre-server startup fails. I'd like to hear from anyone who might be able to suggest a solution to this problem.

05-31-2014, 02:45 PM	#1
paul55391 Enthusiast Posts: 43 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: iPad	Problem starting calibre-server automatically at system startup (Mac) My calibre library is on an external drive connected to my Mac mini server. I've created a plist file (for starting calibre-server) in /Library/LaunchDaemons. When I restart the server I'm expecting launchd to read the plist file and start calibre-server; however, for some reason I need to manually start calibre-server using "launchctl load calibre-server.plist" in Terminal. I'm suspecting that the external drive is not mounted when launchd processes the plist file and so the calibre-server startup fails. I'd like to hear from anyone who might be able to suggest a solution to this problem.