> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:27:59PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: >> I've been playing with aucat's new sound server capabilities, and it's >> impressed me enough that I'd like to have it running as a system-wide >> sound daemon. What is proper way to have it launch at boot? An entry in >> rc.conf.local like 'aucat_flags="-l"'? > > I'm curious what you mean by "system-wide"? I always use it as my > own user. I start it from .xsession with the following line > > pgrep aucat || (/usr/bin/aucat -l &) > > -- > jake...@sdf.lonestar.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
"System-wide" was probably a bad choice of words; what I really meant was, basically, "Am I doing this right?" :-) I've been launching aucat exactly the same way you are, including the test to see if it's already running. And of course it works just fine that way; my thinking was that since aucat is acting as a daemon, maybe I should be starting it somewhere other than in .xsession. I notice that the aucat process stays alive across sessions (which was why I added the pgrep test in my .xsession; during testing I saw I had 8 aucats running!); is this the expected behavior? Thanks for your help! -- Joe Gidi j...@entropicblur.com
