[PD] pd patch startup at boot - ubuntu-server

[mark edward grimm]

thanks derek!

This all looks very promising! I will try some of this
later tonight and i will let the list know what
works... (unless someone already knows what works:)

...no im not running X. its optimized to run with just
a power cord and and network cord :)

best
mark

--- derek holzer <derek at x-i.net> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> mark edward grimm wrote:
> 
> > I took a look at this thread:
> >
>
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2004-10/022984.html
> > 
> > and gave it a whirl with no luck on ubuntu... it
> seems
> > like there should be an easier way to do this.
> 
> I took a bunch of notes from various sources on
> this. Almost all are 
> from posts on the PD list, however I don't have the
> authors names 
> attached anymore. Apologies to the original posters!
> 
> But anyway, you should be able to find a solution
> somewhere in these 
> suggestions! It largely depends on whether or not
> you are running X 
> (which I imagine on a server you are not!)
> 
> best,
> d.
> 
> -----------
> 
> 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: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
>        exit 1
>        ;;
> esac
> 
> ################################## end of script
> #######################
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
> #!/bin/sh
> echo -n "starting pd..."
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> /usr/local/bin/pd_start
> -- 
> 
> -- /usr/local/bin/pd_start:
> #! /bin/sh
> echo -n "starting pd..."
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
> cd /home/glui
> pd -verbose -nogui -nomidi \
> -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/OSC \
> -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/zexy \
> -open
> /home/glui/proj/LIDARmacher/pd/GPlayerStereo.pd &
> -- 
> 
> 
> 
> ########################
> 
> 
> make an ".xinitrc" file in your home directory.  in
> it put something like:
> 
> 	hdspmixer &
> 
> you can also safely put other stuff in there if you
> like:
> 
> 	jackd -d alsa &
> 	pd -jack mypathc.pd &
> 	xterm
> 
> but you might be better off doing this in some other
> star script and
> killing X after you know hdspmixer has been run.  
> you only need to run
> hdspmixer once - this initializes the card somehow.
> 
> ---------
> 
> to login to X automagically
> 
> use mingetty on tty1 with the option --autologin
> you set that in /etc/inittab
> 
> mine says this:
> 	1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> 
> change it to something like this:
> 	1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty  --autologin
> myusername tty1
> 
> where "myusername" is the name you want to log into.
> 
> then in .bash_profile under "myusername", you'll
> want somthing to
> automatically startx, like this:
> 
> if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ];
> then
>    startx
> fi
> 
> 
> 
> ###################
> 
> Using this script you can run Pd as a daemon:
> 
> scripts/debian/init.d/pd
> 
> That means you can do this kind of stuff:
> 
> /etc/init.d/pd start
> /etc/init.d/pd stop
> /etc/init.d/pd restart
> 
> You'll most likely need to use it in -nogui mode,
> but it does that by 
> default.  You can configure which user account pd
> runs 
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