Com.owl.prey constant respawning

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  • **MacMini 2012
  • **Mac OS X 10.12.6
  • **prey daemon constantly respawing

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Hi all,
I noticed the following, reinstalled prey, but the messages continue every 10 seconds:
May 12 08:39:07 powerhouse com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.prey.owl): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
May 12 08:39:38 — last message repeated 2 times —
May 12 08:39:38 powerhouse com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.prey.owl): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
May 12 08:39:58 — last message repeated 2 times —

Prey is running and the location is correct now; however, having the system log filled with prey messages kind of defeats the stealth purpose. If there is more data I can collect let me know. I checked the .plist file for com.owl.prey and it seems ok and some services are running as prey user:

$ ps auwwwx | grep prey
prey 386 0.0 0.0 2490624 1556 ?? S 8:27AM 0:00.01 scutil
prey 118 0.0 0.3 2807752 53280 ?? Ss 8:27AM 0:01.36 prx

Thank you!