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Sender: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch
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Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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Hi people,
since I have the new NextStep3.0, over all it's very good, I can't do
some things I did bevore.

Especially things I want to do at boot-up time.

In NS2.1 I had entries in the rc.local to play a sound and to power the
printer off. The entries looked something like this:

sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/mysound.snd &

...

nppower off

...


The sound was played during boot process until the loginwindow was
displayed (then interrupted, never mind ...).

The printer was turned off bevor displaying the loginwindow.

In NS3.0 now the sound does not play anymore.
(the path is right, sndplay still exists)

In some cases I was able to turn the printer off, but then after loging
in, the printer did'n turn on when selecting "Print", because it's
status was "unavailable". I had to switch it to private or public
using the PrinterManager.
(not the way I like it)

The sound "mysound" is on a second, extern harddisk.
(it was also in NS2.1)


Can anybody tell me, what changed in the behaviour of the rc.local script
or how can I achieve these things (esp. printer off) in another way.

Thanks a lot for mailing me back.
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Name:           Renato Pajarola
Country:        Switzerland
Profession:     Student in Computer Science ETH Zuerich
E-Mail:         rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch

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