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Re: StartupItems

Subject: Re: StartupItems
From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:30:34 -0700

At 12:16 PM -0500 6/2/06, Peter Seebach wrote:

Is this something one could do with trivial wrappers, at least?  An ordering
wrapper that allowed an admin to avoid touching a third-party program would
be awfully cool.

Absolutely. For about the same amount of effort it takes to wrap a generic UNIX daemon into a Mac OS X specific StartupItem, or a linux specific rc.d script, you could create a launchd wrapper that:

* touches a file in /var/run to declare that it has started (provides)
* launches on demand when some file in /var/run appears (requires)

Ta-da, now you have 90% of what StartupItems do. The other 10% is just more of the same, but for shutdown, etc...

-pmb
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