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I'm trying to setup Appium server to stat automatically after system startup. Also I'd like it to restart after a crash. Appium was installed as a npm package and it launches and works fine when I type "appium" in terminal.

So, what I did is created file io.appium.server.plist in /Library/LaunchAgents/ with the following content:

<?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>io.appium.server</string>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string><valid_user_name></string>
        <key>GroupName</key>
        <string>staff</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>appium</string>
                <string>--session-override</string>
        </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Then assigned proper owner (chown) and permissions (chmod) to this file and executed the command:

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/io.appium.server.plist

For some reason this did not start appium server, I cannot connect to it. The "launchctl list" command reported that my task exited with 78 status code, but in Appium's documentation I cannot find what's meant by this exit code.

$ launchctl list | grep appium
-       78      io.appium.server

What did I miss? Why appium launches fine when its started from command line, but does not start from launchd?

I tried moving plist file into user's directory: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ , changing UserName, but neither helped. I debugged it by setting StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath keys, what I found is that the output files were created but were empty.

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