[PD] Turning on/off an installation

[chris clepper]

On 6/23/07, Kyle Klipowicz <kyleklip at gmail.com> wrote:
> These are all simple enough, but what about this next one?
>
> > 5/  set Pd to start or a script to run on login in
> > SystemPreferences:Accounts:YourUser:LoginItems

Kyle you are overdoing it!

Just drag Pd.app into the Login Items in the Accounts pref pane and
then add -open /path/to/my/patch.pd to the Pd startup.  Easy.

> I looked into /LIbrary/StartupItems/iScroll2 for a startup example.
> Would I just modify the following shell script and create a
> /Library/StartupItems/Pd to get things working?
> --------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> daemonpath="/Library/StartupItems/iScroll2"
> daemonname="iScroll2Daemon"
> daemonpidfile="/var/run/${daemonname}.pid"
>
> . /etc/rc.common
>
> StartService ()
> {
>     ConsoleMessage "Starting iScroll2"
>     "${daemonpath}/${daemonname}"
>     ConsoleMessage -S
> }
>
> StopService ()
> {
>     ConsoleMessage "Stopping iScroll2"
>     kill $(cat "${daemonpidfile}")
>     ConsoleMessage -S
> }
>
> RestartService () { StopService; StartService; }
>
>
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>
> How well would this work with a bundled *.app file, say
> Pd-extended.app? How do I choose the proper patch to launch?
>
> Thanks a lot for any answers you can provide, I've never had to deal
> with this before so I am learning a ton from the advice on this list.
>
> ~Kyle
>
> >
> >
> > I guess that the file system journalling is helping to prevent
> > corruption, but I still don't rely on that and either leave it
> > running or use the schedule to sleep and startup as required,
> >
> > Note that if you shutdown manually (or by the schedule) then later
> > turn the power off then on again it is not a 'power failure' and the
> > system won't reboot automatically, it only does so when it lost power
> > while running. Also you have to make sure Pd quits before any
> > automatic shutdown because it does not quit when the system asks it
> > to during normal shutdowns.
> >
> > You could also try mounting drives read only etc - but I haven't
> > tested that and would like to know more possibilities in this area!
> >
> >
> > simon
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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