[PD] Turning on/off an installation

[Derek Holzer]

Hi Ben, Alexandre,

I think Alex is worried about his file system. The answer is simple:

1) Mount all drives read-only in /etc/fstab
2) Put a startup script so that whenever the machine is booted, it 
starts your patch (check PD archives for this, there was lots of 
discussion. My solution is pasted below***)
3) Museum/gallery people can *never* be bothered to learn how to 
start/stop things safely, so if you do the above they can hit the power 
button/turn off the circuitbreaker/pull the plug/do whatever to it every 
night and you shouldn't have any problems. I've run several 
installations in this way before.

best,
d.

*** I used .xinitrc to start everything:

#~/.xinitrc
# make sure your system is set up so that X starts when the machine 
boots, and it autologs you as this user!
# first set LADSPA_PATH for [plugin~]
# open alsamixer to set soundcard levels
# make sure jackd isn't running already by killing it
# start jackd [if PD uses it in your case]
# start pd [optional: use -open /path/to/installation.patch.pd if it's 
not in your ~/.pdrc or ~/.pdsettings]

export LADSPA_PATH=/usr/lib/ladspa
fluxbox &
xterm -exec alsamixer &
killall jackd &
jackd -d alsa r 44100 &
pd

# end ~/.xinitrc

B. Bogart wrote:

> Are you worried about wearing out the HW? (mechanical parts?)

>> The whole idea behind this is to avoid to suddenly turn off
>> the computer, which would probably corrupt the file system at some
>> point. Of course I use GNU/Linux : probably Ubuntu Server or Debian.


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