In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Charles Albrecht writes: > At 11:48 AM -0500 10/23/2002, Puneet Kishor wrote: > >if you do turn off the computer, then either remember to run psync > >before turning it off, or figure out how to have it run automatically > >on shutdown. > > Although SystemStarter, which processes and prioritizes the entries in > OS X's StartupItems folders, is documented to allow 'stop' or 'restart' > parameters in addition to 'start' to be sent to the StartupItems scripts > themselves, this ability hasn't yet been activated. I had heard rumors > that Jaguar would enable this, but read recently (on O'Reilly's > macdevcenter.com) that it's still missing in 10.2. > > Eventually "having it run automatically on shutdown" will be something > we can accomplish on OS X.
Of course, that wouldn't have helped me. The first thing I do when I have a crash and get the system back up is reboot it again so that I'm sure I get a clean cold boot. (Call it superstition, but a system that has gone through a clean shutdown/reboot cycle has always seemed more stable to me than one coming right back from a crash.) That means I'd really need room for *two* images of my disk to go back to before the problem erupted. Really, even that probably wouldn't do it, as several have noted--my problem has probably been burgeoning for quite a while now, and who knows how far back I'd have to go to get to the point before it occurred. Disk is cheap, but it isn't cheap enough for daily backups over any appreciable length of time. :-) Trey
