Re: Startup Questons
Re: Startup Questons
- Subject: Re: Startup Questons
- From: Jim Ways <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:37:32 -0700 (PDT)
Just trying to grab some infomation from the hard
disk, using a startup Bundle. Everything else works
fine with no issues besides grabbing the info.
--- J Nozzi <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm not sure whether or not you answered this,
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but what kind of
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'startup' are you referring to? If you're trying to
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perform
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user-related tasks during *system* startup, you may
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need to re-think
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your design. If you mean the 'login' process, you
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still may need to
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rethink your design a little. Without further
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information on what
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you're trying to accomplish, I'm just shooting in
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the dark.
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- J
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On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Jim Ways wrote:
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> But if i call NSHomeDirectoryForUser(NSUserName)
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wont
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> i get the same problem? Because it will just
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return
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> the root user? How can i find out what user will
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be
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> logged in? Will it work if i use a
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> stringByExpandingTildeInPath instead?
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> --- J Nozzi <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> If you're not logged in as the user in
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question,
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>> you probably need to
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>> use NSHomeDirectoryForUser() rather than
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>> NSHomeDirectory().
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>>
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>> - J
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>>
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>> On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Jim Ways wrote:
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>>
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>>> NSHomeDirectory()
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stringByAppendingPathComponent:
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>>>
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>>> It works completly fine and normal when it is
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run
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>> in
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>>> the directory outside of startup (as if a double
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>> click
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>>> it) But when it runs at startup with root access
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>> it
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>>> cant seem to read in that file.
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>>>
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>>> --- Larry Fransson <email@hidden>
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wrote:
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>>>> On Jul 26, 2004, at 06:17, Jim Ways wrote:
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>>>>
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>>>>> Its a startup bundle and is running with root
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>>>>> privligies. It is unable to use the command
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>>>>> initWithContentsOfFile: I was assuming it
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could
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>>>> not
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>>>>> access the files during startup for one reason
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>> or
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>>>>> another. Am I not providing the right
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>> requirements
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>>>> in
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>>>>> the startup parameters for the file perhaps?
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>>>>
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>>>> The first thing to look at is the file path.
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>> What
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>>>> does it look like?
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>>>> If there is a tilde (~) in the path, you'll
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have
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>> to
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>>>> expand that.
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>>>>
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>>>> Larry Fransson
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>>>> Seattle, WA
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