@psherotov I've never not used the plist name as the Label, but I don't think things don't work if they're different. Have you made sure the K-3Dock.sh script you're calling is executable? The best online reference for LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons is https://www.launchd.info. It was created by the publishers of LaunchControl which is an excellent tool for creating/modifying LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents.

One change you might try, if your script is a bash script, is use the following for your ProgramArguments array:

<array>

    <string>/bin/bash</string>

    <string>/Library/Scripts/K-3Dock.sh</string>

</array>

Permissions should be 644

chmod 644 file_name

and owner should be root:wheel

chown root:wheel file_name

@sdagley and @rqomsiya Thanks for the input I made the changes/checked/confirmed permissions.

Here's screenshots of plist location and permissions:

Also, here's the script itself:

#!/bin/bash



#We need to wait for the dock to actually start

until [[ $(pgrep Dock) ]]; do

    wait

done



#Get the current logged in user that we'll be modifying

if [ ! -z "$3" ]; then

    user=$3

else

    user=$(python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or [None])[0]; username = [username,""][username in [u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + "

");')

fi



#Set variables

du="/usr/local/bin/dockutil"

userHome="/Users/$user"

networkHome="smb://server.com/Students$/$user"

thinkinThings="Applications/Thinkin' Things 1/Thinkin' Things 1.app"



#Function for applying dock configuration

createBaseDock()

{

    #Remove all items for logged in user

    $du --remove all --no-restart $userHome



    #Adding base items to the dock    

    $du --add '/Applications/Google Chrome.app' --position 1 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Safari.app'  --position 2 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Comic Life 3.app' --position 4 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Doozla.app' --position 3 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/FableVision/Stationery Studio/Stationery Studio 1.2.app' --position 5 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/The Print Shop 2.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add "$thinkinThings" --position 7 --no-restart $userHome

}



#Function for finishing base dock

finishBaseDock()

{

    #Add local downloads

    $du --add '~/Downloads' --section others --position last --no-restart $userHome



    killall Dock

}



    case $user in

        p|k)

            echo "p or k found"

            createBaseDock

            finishBaseDock

            ;; 

        1)

            echo "1 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/Applications/Google Earth.app' --position 8 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 9 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

        2)

            echo "2 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/Applications/Google Earth.app' --position 8 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 9 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Lego Digital Designer.app' --position 10 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

        3)

            echo "3 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/Applications/Google Earth.app' --position 8 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 9 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Lego Digital Designer.app' --position 10 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.app' --position 11 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Adobe Photoshop CS6.app' --position 12 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

    esac



exit 0

Still not working :(

Please let me know if you have any additional suggestions or if you spot a goof on my part. :)

Just a follow-up. Nothing is getting written to the logs specified in the plist.

@psherotov Your K-3Dock.sh script doesn't have an executable flag. Do a sudo chmod +x /Library/Scripts/K-3Dock.sh to set that.

@sdagley Thanks. That's the trouble with working on something to much, you start to miss obvious stuff! :)

I also figured out why the agent was failing. Our student accounts don't have access to /tmp so it was failing and not running the script. The revised plist below works fine!

<?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.dockset.app</string>



        <key>ProgramArguments</key>

        <array>

            <string>/Library/Scripts/K-3Dock.sh</string>

        </array>



        <key>RunAtLoad</key>

        <true/>

</dict>

</plist>