[PD] auto login + auto run pd on linux

[marius schebella]

hi,



to autostart on linux



put a symlink in your rc3.d (or with whatever runlevel you boot by default,
this is set in /etc/inittab)

called S19pd_start (any number, but be sure, all other important processes
are started before/lower numbers...) to a script named pd_start



linux then calls this script with the argument "start" when booting. the
script "pd_start" looks like:



#################################  beginning of script
#############################





#! /bin/sh

# Check for missing binaries (stale symlinks should not happen)
PD_BIN=/usr/local/pd/bin/pd
test -x $PD_BIN || exit 5

case "$1" in
    start)
      echo -n "Starting PD"
      ## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails
      ## the return value is set appropriately by startproc.
      /usr/local/pd/bin/pd -nogui -noadc -audiobuf 20 -r 22050 \
      -lib /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp/pdp \
      -lib /usr/local/lib/pd/externs/zexy \
      -path /home/marius \
      -path /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp \
      -path /usr/local/lib/pd/externs/zexy \
      /home/marius/application.pd &
      ;;
      ## mind the &!!!
    stop)
      echo -n "Shutting down FOO "
      ## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails
      ## killproc sets the return value according to LSB.

      kill 'cat /var/run/pd.pid'
      ;;

    restart)
      ## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was
      ## running or not, start it again.
      $0 stop
      $0 start
      ;;

    *)
      echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
      exit 1
      ;;
esac

################################## end of script #######################


marius.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rob canning" <rscanning at eircom.net>
To: <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 1:15 PM
Subject: [PD] auto login + auto run pd on linux


>
> hi,
> i have made an installation using pd and am migrating it to a planetccrma
box from a windows machine - i need the patch to open automaticaly when the
system boots up - in windows i just put a shortcut to my .bat file in the
startup folder which worked fine. how do i do this in Linux?
> also i have stupidly locked myself out my root account by:
> chsh -s /sbin/nologin
> i thought this would bypass the login procedure - whoops!
> how can i get my root account back?
> this is my real problem at the moment
> thanks,
> rob
> www.robcanning.utvinternet.com
>
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