On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Duncan Groenewald wrote:
I don't understand why you think this is the wrong place ?
This panel contains items such as Web Sharing, File Sharing, Print
Sharing, etc. Why are these any different from Database Sharing ?
The problem is not so much regarding the service itself, but rather
that the Sharing preference pane is supplied by Apple and is not
intended to be extended by third parties. It's important to keep
vendor-supplied software 'untainted' by third party modification. How
would you distribute your modified version of Apple's Sharing
preference pane. What if Apple changes the prefpane in such a way
that it breaks or disables your modification? What if your
modification breaks the Sharing pref pane for some users? Your
software needs to be protected from Apple as much as Apple's software
needs to be protected from you :)
Creating your own preference pane would give you a greater amount of
flexibility, as well as preserve the important tradition of
separation of site local software from vendor supplied software.
More on this topic can be found here: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/
fhs-2.3.html. Both that document and the 'hier' man page make no
reference to the Mac OS X specific directories such as /System or /
Library, but a good general rule is that you should never install
anything into /System (one notable exception is kernel extensions).
Most things that would go in /System can also go in /Library, and /
Library is a valid place for site-local customizations.
HTH,
-Andre
On 26/06/2007, at 3:06 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:
At 9:59 PM +1200 6/23/07, Duncan Groenewald wrote:
Hi, I am trying to create an entry in the System Preferences/
Sharing panel for a database server. I have set the database up
in the ~/Library/StartupItems folder and checked it starts up and
shuts down correctly - all good.
WHat I really want is to create an entry in the above mentioned
preferences panel so that I can easily start and stop the service.
Any help with how to do this would be appreciated.
The System Preferences / Sharing Panel is probably the wrong
place. What you should consider is writing a Preference Pane. See
the OS X Developer docs.
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-dhan
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