[NPMUG] The periodic daemons, my final question (I hope)

[Robert Peirce]

I upgraded my wife's computer from 10.5 to 10.6 and the three periodic daemons get launchd and run correctly.

I upgraded my computer from 10.4 to 10.6 and they do not.  The seem to get sort of loaded in the sense that list does not show them but unload produces a different error message from the one you get if you try to unload a daemon that was never loaded.  Likewise, the load command produces a different error message from the one you get if you try to load a daemon that is already loaded.  So, they are kind of in an OS X never-never land.  You can get them running with load -F, but this doesn't happen automatically.

I went back and looked at 10.4 and discovered these daemons existed in 10.4 but the disabled flag was set.  Consequently, all of us that used anacron to run periodic in 10.4 may not have had to do that.  OTOH, in 10.6 a new property has been added: AbandonProcessGroup and the flag has been set.  Since that exists on both our computers I don't think that is the issue.

As near as I can determine, there was something in 10.4 that prevented these daemons from being loaded property.  That something went away in 10.5, but since I went from 10.4 directly to 10.6, that something still exists on my computer.  What is it and how to I remove it?