paul beard sez: } I just wrote up my experience with starting services at boot time } on Darwin and OS X systems: if anyone has any amendments or <gulp> } corrections, please let me know. } } http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/archives/000128.html#000128 } } I think I like this way of handling services; there seems to be } one per flavor of *NIX, so there are lots of choices. The scripts } only seem to start services, not stop, restart or any other } options. There are pidfiles, in /var/run and /sw/var, so I guess } you could hook those in: wonder why that isn't already in there?
A very few of the scripts do support stop as an argument. My understanding is that all of them are called with the "start" argument at startup. I will point out that both /System/Library/StartupItems and /Library/StartupItems will be used -- it's basically a merge of the two directories. I don't know what happens if you have duplicate entries, and I don't feel like rebooting enough times to find out. Documentation can be found... er... somewhere. I seem to have a PDF that describes the SystemStarter program, but I don't know where I got it from. Ah, a quick google search turns up: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kevinvv/SystemStarter.pdf } Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / --Greg _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
