[PD] Turning on/off an installation

Andy Farnell padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Sat Jun 23 10:34:40 CEST 2007



On shutdown sync is also your friend 
sync; sleep 3; halt;

if you don't want the patch running as root
(if on network) then sudo the shutdown script.



On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:03:02 +0200
Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> wrote:

> 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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