How to restart the taskgated process?

Question

I am trying to follow this manual, which contains the instruction:

restart taskgated service by killing the current running taskgated process

How to do it? I am trying to find taskgated and got only some ttys007, but no task gated process:

$ ps | grep taskgated
66942 ttys007    0:00.00 grep --exclude-dir=.svn taskgated
$lsof | grep taskgated
$

You know you could just use MacPorts to get a working gdb? That's what I did, and it was pretty painless. — John Zwinck, Nov 18 '13 at 12:28
@JohnZwinck, how to do it? I asked it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20022230/how-to-install-gdb-on-osx-10-9 if you have an answer please help. — klm123, Nov 18 '13 at 12:29
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19554439/gdb-missing-in-os-x-mavericks — Peter Teoh, Jul 20 '14 at 05:54

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 18 '17 at 15:34

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To save one step, simply execute:

sudo pkill taskgated

Since this is a process required by the kernel, it will be automatically respawned.

edited Apr 18 '17 at 15:34

Paweł Gościcki

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answered Feb 26 '16 at 10:35

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Doesn't work. The process is now automatically restarted. – Paweł Gościcki Apr 17 '17 at 10:24
Yes, of course. Please look at the question again. The user needs to restart `taskgated` by killing it. `taskgated` is needed by the kernel so you can not have it not running at all. – houtanb Apr 18 '17 at 12:01
Yes, you're right. I've updated the question & answer. – Paweł Gościcki Apr 18 '17 at 15:32

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 18 '13 at 13:41

taskgated is root process, therefore you need to use sudo.

$sudo lsof | grep taskgated  


taskgated   13            root  cwd       DIR                1,2       1156        2 /
taskgated   13            root  txt       REG                1,2      71520   530715 /usr/libexec/taskgated
taskgated   13            root  txt       REG                1,2      29968   706441 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ConfigProfileHelper.framework/Versions/A/ConfigProfileHelper

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 11 '16 at 23:05

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Restarting your computer also works.

edited Mar 11 '16 at 23:05

Undo

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answered Aug 31 '15 at 03:39

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How to restart the taskgated process?

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