Startup applications in snow leopard

Little snitch is an application i installed and does not show up in startup items in system preferences, however the application always starts up whenever the system starts, how does it do this, is there s开发者_开发问答ome other place where applications can register themselves so they launch on startup.

EDIT: BELONGS ON SUPERUSER.

Little Snitch runs at a much lower level than normal applications; it is a Kernel extension (kext) which integrates with the Mac OS kernel.

This is why you don't see it appear as a 'normal' registered program in your startup items list, because it's not one of those.

Somebody has put a list of files installed by Little Snitch here (link is a couple of years old)

A 'Daemon' or a 'Launch Agent' can do that.

Have a look in /Library/LaunchAgent or /Library/LaunchDaemon

There will be quite a few processes that launch without being in the Startup Items section of System Preferences.