Hi, all of my paths are absolute. There are in /usr/bin/puredata.
Do you think it could be that /usr/ isn't mounted yet when Pd is launched
by rc.local?

2013/1/24 padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk <padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk>

> **
>  On 24 January 2013 at 18:35 Pierre Massat <pimas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get Pd to run at startup. I've put the command in
> /etc/rc.local.
> Everything works fine, except that Pd seems to be unable to search the
> paths I specified (either in .pdsettings or directly in the command line).
> I'm trying to use a patch with the reverb described in the audio examples
> (G.08 I think), and there's an abstraction in it which lives in
> 3.audio.examples.
> Every time I boot Pd starts all right, but I get errors because it can't
> create the abstraction.
>
> It's a bit weird because the very same command works like a charm once
> i've logged in.
>
>  Make sure all paths are absolute, and not relative to a tilde (user home)
> and point
>  to world readable directories.
> Starting via rc.local will mean the application is launched as root, and
> since there
>  is no login shell and cwd associated at the time it is launched the paths
> you
>  specify when logged in probably make no sense.
>
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