After quite a bit of poking around, I ran across pp. 38-41 of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" (Jepson & Rothman, O'Reilly), which gives some explicit information on setting up Startup scripts. With this assistance, I was able to get my startup script going (whew!).
I then noticed that the script (and any daemons it might start up) was running as root. Ungood. I worked around the problem by setting the script "setuid nobody", but this is not a really robust solution. I also filed a bug, suggesting that Apple add a startup parameter (e.g., RunAs) that would set the username; the default should be nobody. -r P.S. Is there any other documentation to recommend on Startup scripts? -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection
