On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:41:30PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: > > 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 &) > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > 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. >
IMO, thats best way to start it for now. This also allows to create the socket in a private directory (by using -s option and the exporting the AUDIODEVICE environment variable). > 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? > somewhat ugly, but yes, that's the expected behaviour. Each aucat process will become the client of the previous one, because it doesn't check if there's already anoter process running. -- Alexandre
