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Intenditore

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It's all started with Ventura. rtcreportingd started to consume CPU cycles despite all the reports are disabled. I couldn't find a cause, but what I want is to prevent it from running AT ALL. So it never ever starts.
It's not alone in my list. I also wish to do the same to some other processes such as com.apple.siri.embeddedspeech and other privacy-invasive s*t.
I tried this in this recipes - in first case I can't find where is this process' in plists, in second there's no way to escalate rights enough even with sudo - it says "not preveleged to signal service".
Is there a way to handle it? I actually want to regain some power over my computer back 🧐
 

bogdanw

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Mar 10, 2009
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If you disable SIP, you can disable system launch agents and daemons.
To disable SIP: csrutil disable from Terminal in Recovery
To disable rtcreportingd

Code:
sudo launchctl bootout system/com.apple.rtcreportingd
sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.rtcreportingd

To re-enable
Code:
sudo launchctl enable system/com.apple.rtcreportingd

and reboot.

The change can also be reverted by deleting /private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/disabled.plist
I’ve never tried to disable rtcreportingd, I would test it in a virtual machine before trying on my Mac.
These are launch agents and daemons I currently have disabled in Sonoma
https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/812997a189f72f3953e0a1bb237f783d
Apple's documentation about SIP https://developer.apple.com/documen...ling_and_enabling_system_integrity_protection
 
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Fishrrman

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Feb 20, 2009
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RE bogdanw's reply above...

It would be nice if someone could put together a graphical interface app (thinking of OnyX) that could put up a checklist of launch agents and daemons, which the user could then check/uncheck as required...
 
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