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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

In article <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>  writes:
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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
> 
> ....
> 
> 

I always had to put a sleep <some seconds> before the nppower off command in  
rc.local. On the 'old' station and 2.1, 3 seconds were fine, now I need 5  
seconds or the printer won't turn off.

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I posted the question about sndplay and nppower off in the rc.local
script.

I tried out the tips and the solution is in both cases:
put a sleep command and then the other.

(sleep 10; /usr/bin/sndplay ...) &
(sleep 10; /usr/etc/nppower off) &

I guess you have to wait until the loginwindow process is
correctly started and then al the "services" have their correct
behaviour.

sndplay and nppower start now after the loginwindow appears.
The printer is now "Private" after logging in, and that's
what I wanted.

Thanks for the tips,
-------------------------------------------------------------

Name:           Renato Pajarola
Country:        Switzerland
Profession:     Student in Computer Science ETH Zuerich
E-Mail:         rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch

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