Last week I posted on how to setup NRPE on Mac OS X Server. Here is what you need to do to make it start up at system boot.
On a Linux or Solaris machine you can just include the call to the daemon in an init script like rc.local and it will be started when the OS boots. Unfortunately, Apple has made this a little more difficult on Mac OS X with Tiger and Leopard. The standard startup processes (cron, inetd, xinetd, etc.) have been rolled into a single process known as launchd.
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