Hi Christian, Thanks for your reply. a.lasterror is 0 a.readstream is empty When I try from the command line there's no output either, so I'm not sure readstream would have anything in it. When I try /bin/launchctl print com.bodoni.server, it all works. a.lasterror is 0, a.readstream has the same output as when I use a terminal. print can be used to see if a launchdaemon is running. So it looks like everything is working, but the service does not stop. We have to stop a few services using this method. 1 is a consoleapp, 1 is an old API1 webserver app, 1 is a newer API2 webserver app, so I don't think the style makes any difference. If I stop the services from the terminal using the same command, running /bin/launchctl load system/com.bodoni.server from AuthorizationMBS starts the service properly. Regards, Lee

On 7 Dec 2023, at 12:20, Christian Schmitz via MBS Xojo Plugins wrote:

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Am 07.12.2023 um 12:07 schrieb Lee Badham via MBS Xojo Plugins :

Although there's no error shown, the service does not stop.

Could you maybe look like our example:

if a.LastError<>0 then MsgBox "Lasterror on Execute: "+str(a.LastError) else e=a.Wait // wait for process to terminate. Returns PID if a.LastError<>0 then MsgBox "Lasterror on Wait: "+str(a.LastError) end if end if msgbox a.ReadStream(1024)

So you would read the error message from the stream after it finished?

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This is from the console log.

AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges and AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivilegesExternalForm are deprecated and functionality will be removed soon - please update your application

Yes, Apple loves you to use helper apps for this.

See SMAppServiceMBS class.

Best regards, Christian

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