Re: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-24 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 21:42:04 EDT, Kirk Strauser scribbled these curious markings: Nope, that's fine. Of course, you *could* just leave it running forever, if you really wanted to. No, it is anything _but_ fine. If Gerard makes a mistake with mergemaster, his shutdown changes are lost. The

Re: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-05-24T18:51:18Z, Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, it is anything _but_ fine. Ack - I saw rc.shutdown and mentally replaced it with ~/.bash_logout , which would've been fine. The real way is decidedly not fine. -- Kirk Strauser pgpt7jOKNGNV8.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-24 Thread Eric Crist
On Monday 24 May 2004 19:23, you wrote: ** Reply Separator ** Monday, May 24, 2004 8:18:06 PM Sorry Eric, but I am not the well versed in this OS yet. I was able to create a simple script that works. The program is started at log-on and stopped at shutdown without incident.

Re: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-05-23T21:58:06Z, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since everything seems to be workings correctly, I assume that I have done this correctly. If there is a better way to do this, I would appreciate receiving the information. Nope, that's fine. Of course, you *could* just leave

Re: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-23 Thread Murray Taylor
Make a shell script like the ones in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start and stop the process. The script MUST be named whatever.sh and must be executable. It must accept start and stop as parameters. This is the general solution. There is probably a doc reference for it but I havent looked. mjt On

RE: Proper way to start a program at log-on

2004-05-23 Thread Eric Crist
Make a shell script like the ones in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start and stop the process. The script MUST be named whatever.sh and must be executable. It must accept start and stop as parameters. This is the general solution. There is probably a doc reference for it but I havent looked. mjt On