Hi Ben, Alexandre, I think Alex is worried about his file system. The answer is simple:
1) Mount all drives read-only in /etc/fstab 2) Put a startup script so that whenever the machine is booted, it starts your patch (check PD archives for this, there was lots of discussion. My solution is pasted below***) 3) Museum/gallery people can *never* be bothered to learn how to start/stop things safely, so if you do the above they can hit the power button/turn off the circuitbreaker/pull the plug/do whatever to it every night and you shouldn't have any problems. I've run several installations in this way before. best, d. *** I used .xinitrc to start everything: #~/.xinitrc # make sure your system is set up so that X starts when the machine boots, and it autologs you as this user! # first set LADSPA_PATH for [plugin~] # open alsamixer to set soundcard levels # make sure jackd isn't running already by killing it # start jackd [if PD uses it in your case] # start pd [optional: use -open /path/to/installation.patch.pd if it's not in your ~/.pdrc or ~/.pdsettings] export LADSPA_PATH=/usr/lib/ladspa fluxbox & xterm -exec alsamixer & killall jackd & jackd -d alsa r 44100 & pd # end ~/.xinitrc B. Bogart wrote: > Are you worried about wearing out the HW? (mechanical parts?) >> The whole idea behind this is to avoid to suddenly turn off >> the computer, which would probably corrupt the file system at some >> point. Of course I use GNU/Linux : probably Ubuntu Server or Debian. -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ---Oblique Strategy # 169: "Use filters" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
