On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 07:54 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: >>> >>> 1. There is a built-in application called WatchDog which can be >>> configured to autorestart an application if it should crash >>> thereby assuring that your program would always be running. This >>> would be similar to running as a service under Windows for all >>> practical purposes. >> Will this start it the first time, that is, at boot? Is this on >> regular ol OS X, too? > To have any application autostart at boot simply add it to the > Login Items in the System Preferences either by clicking the > Add... button and selecting the file (either application or > document) or, even easier, just drag the file icon to the Login > Items window. This works with any version of OS X. For the geeks > among us, this actually edits the file in the > /User/Library/Preference/loginwindow.plist file which is an XML > file. I haven't looked to see if WatchDog does this automatically > but it might. > I found this info on startup items: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Darwin/PortingUNIX/additionalfeatures/ Boot_Sequence.html
This looks like applies to all OS X and does not require login. I wonder if there is a tool that helps in creating and editing items in /library/startupItems. Dar Scott _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
