Re: Srcipts in Start Up Folder
Re: Srcipts in Start Up Folder
- Subject: Re: Srcipts in Start Up Folder
- From: Nick Quinn <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:41:30 +1000
John,
Thus spoke John W Baxter <email@hidden> on Saturday, 22 September
2001 at 3:01 PM +1000:
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At 16:09 +1200 9/23/2001, Blair Ward wrote:
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>I have had a mixed bag of success with scripts in the Start Up
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>folder. I have been unable to obtain a fail safe method of first
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>ensuring the scripts operate and secondly that they work in the
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>desired order. I have used a variety of naming systems for the
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>scripts. I would appreciate hearing from anyone with information on
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>this. Thanks for your time.
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I don't think you can do more than force the Finder and the system to start
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the scripts in the right order. But all are started and run, giving up
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time now and then, without waiting for any to finish. I don't think the
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ordering of the stuff within each script versus the others is
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deterministic. If two things need to be done in a given order, I think you
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have to put them into the same script.
Make the "startup items" viewed by list and in Name order, then add
numbers to the front of names of the aliases you place in there, then
they start in that order. Suck it and see. It works for me :-) (I had to
get a DNS server to start before a HTTP one.)
hf,
Nick Quinn
Sunshine Beach Software in OZ