I'm trying to figure out what SMSdaemon is and how to remove it. Is it a vital system process or something malicious? It can hog up a ton of ram and when I kill it, it comes back. Help? Thanks!
Got it, found the source of the process by using "inspect" on Activity Monitor... apparently it was an application support script that went awol. Killed and quickly deleted the script before it could start up again... vola!
The following messages are regenerated in Console, non-stop, every few seconds:
[snip]
How do I stop this?
SMSDaemon[179] Located known iPhone 'Touch', serial no. 'XXXXXXXXXX'.
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.micromat.SMSDaemon.plist
~/Library/Application Support/Syphone
I have had a similar problem. I have tried deleting application support and also launch agents but this does not seem to have helped.
18/01/09 3:26:15 PM com.apple.launchd[64] (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[3037]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Vodafone Mobile Connect/Vodafone Mobile Connect.app/Contents/Resources/Specific/Mac_SwapperDemon.app/Contents/MacOS/Mac_SwapperDemon", ...): No such file or directory
18/01/09 3:26:15 PM com.apple.launchd[64] (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[3037]) Exited with exit code: 1
18/01/09 3:26:15 PM com.apple.launchd[64] (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
launchctl list | grep [Ss]wapper
- 1 cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist
launchctl remove cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist
I understand that this is a very old thread, but I have a quick question.
I recently used an app deleting program to get rid of something and it took SMSDaemon with it. Is that a component that comes with OS X? If so I would like to put it back where it came from. What folder does it go in?
I wish I were running Snow Leopard so I could have the put back command...
No it doesn't come with OS X. I think it's installed as part of TechTools (the disc that comes with AppleCare). If you look above at someone's logs, the sig of SMSDaemon is com.micromat.SMSDaemon. Micromat make Techtools...well, it's my educated guess anyway.
You won't miss it.
I also was wondering what SMSDaemon was because it was leaving an entry in my console every minute that looked like this:
Code:SMSDaemon[179] Located known iPhone 'Touch', serial no. 'XXXXXXXXXX'.
It was indeed related to Syphone which I had tried a while ago, but was no longer using. To remove it I deleted the following plist file and Application Support folder (probably just removing the plist file would have been enough to stop it):
Code:~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.micromat.SMSDaemon.plist ~/Library/Application Support/Syphone