starting stuff at boot..

Hecate

Is there a way to get applications/daemons to start automagically at boot time in OS X?...like BSDs /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory?

Hugh_C

Originally posted by Hecate
Is there a way to get applications/daemons to start automagically at boot time in OS X?...like BSDs /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory?

You can fire things up automagically on login by adding stuff in to a .login file, so presumably ther's a trivial way to do it system-wide at boot time as well.

Poke around in somewhere like

/usr/share/tcsh/examples

there's a readme with all sorts of illuminating stuff.

The macdevcenter and oreilly websites are pretty good for stuff like that

Dr_Teeth

Hec mate, OSX has a trendy start-up script system using XML files. Have a search on the 'net for a HOW-TO. On my iBook I have mysql initialising just fine on start-up. It even says 'Starting Mysql server..' along with the rest of the messages under the OSX logo before you login.

Teeth.

Kenz

Hecate....

There are two very easy ways of doing this.
1. Place the application/daemon (or alias to the application/daemon) in the /System/Library/StartupItems folder in OSX. Or you could create a folder in /Library/ called StartupItems (don't remember if it's already there by default) and place your application in there and I think that should work.

or

2. In the System Preferences, click on Login Items and Add the item(s) that you want to start in here.

No need to be anymore complicated than that really.

Hecate

Thanks for the suggestions kenz, the first one worked fine, it's handy to have samba start automatically.