Python Scripts in Virtual Environments in Background macOS

rothnd wrote:

Title says what I'm trying to accomplish.

It does not.

Using 2 services - 1. wiki Drazzilb08/daps and 2. local Kometa.

I went to both site and I still have no idea what these things do.

These install pretty similarly and are invoked similarly but I can't seem to blend them together.

Blend them together in what way? What do they do?

I have tried too many things to enumerate here but they include: running the python command with nohup, running with disown, making a LaunchAgent plist that calls a sh script to run the commands, all to no avail.

The first step is always getting something running properly in an interactive Terminal session. Any kind of background operation is going to be wildly different. But that doesn't change the fact that you have to be able to run it manually first. Until you can do that, you will never make any further progress.

Assuming you can run them manually, please describe how you would do that, and what that would do for you.

I don't understand what this one does so...

Tell me about it.

The plist I'm trying to understand

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Label</key>

<string>com.YOUR_USERNAME.kometa</string>

<key>ProgramArguments</key>

<array>

<string>sh</string>

<string>-c</string>

<string>kometa-venv/bin/python kometa.py --config /path/to/kometa-config/config.yml</string>

</array>

<key>UserName</key>

<string>YOUR_USERNAME</string>

<key>WorkingDirectory</key>

<string>/PATH/TO/KOMETA</string>

</dict>

</plist>

Which gets invoked peculiarly to me

cd ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

launchctl bootstrap gui/YOUR-USER-ID com.YOUR_USERNAME.kometa.plist

And doesn't seem to work.

Of course not. It's wrong in at least 3 different ways.

How can I best accomplish 2 python scripts in background in their respective virtual environments at startup running macOS 14.7.2

At startup or login? Are these services used by a single user, or are they supposed to be available to all users?

What command lines would you execute if you just wanted to run it manually in Terminal?

This is something that is out of scope for these Apple communities but is potentially better served at the Python community or Apple's Developer forums.