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Re: rc.local

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From: Erik Oliver
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 16:22
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In article <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch (Renato Bruno Pajarola) writes:
>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
>
>...
>
>

As a rule of thumb, you should include full paths in 'rc' and 'cron'
run scripts because frequently environment variables that might normally
assist unix in finding executables are not avaialable.  

Peraps under 2.0 either the PATH environement was set somehow by the
time rc.local ran or these executables were stored somewhere different,
I can't say.

But, I would suggest trying to type the whole path out:
eg: /usr/bin/runthisapp 

Etc.  Also, there may be some issues involving when disk mounting occurs
preventing the sounds from playing.  (I can't really say.)

-Erik
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