Re: Is there a way to trigger scripts at shutdown in 10.3? why don't scripts in /Library/StartupItems run?
Re: Is there a way to trigger scripts at shutdown in 10.3? why don't scripts in /Library/StartupItems run?
- Subject: Re: Is there a way to trigger scripts at shutdown in 10.3? why don't scripts in /Library/StartupItems run?
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:09:09 -0400
There is no direct way to do shutdown scripts through the GUI. Through
the shell you can change the logout hook to run a script or program
when a person logs out but that's a pain to do:
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http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
BPSystemStartup/Tasks/CustomLogin.html>
The StartupItems directory is not the same as the Startup Items folder
was under Mac OS 9. You need to set it up in a specialized way. Here
is how to use it:
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http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
BPSystemStartup/Tasks/CreatingStartupItems.html>
IMHO the best way to do a startup item is to do so through the System
Preferences, it is located at:
System Preferences->Accounts->TheUser->Startup Items
For shutdown items you would have to create some sort of monitoring
program or shell tool and have it listen for a shutdown event. Then it
could take action before shutting down.
- Ken
On Jun 12, 2004, at 10:34 PM, trinko wrote:
As far as i can tell there is no equivalent to the old shutdown items
folder from OS 9. Anyone know otherwise?
i've tried putting script applications into /Library/StartupItems and
~/Library/StartupItems and they don't run. I can get them to run by
using the accounts preference and specifying the scripts as starup
items but I was wondering if there is a folder equivalent to the old
startup items in System 9.
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