Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:11:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Henri Prudhomme <ntwrk_engr@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Swatch script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d Message-ID: <20041015161158.78373.qmail@web53010.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041015094557.GC93093@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Since your script can start up Swatch when run by > hand, but not during > system boot, I suspect the problem is either to do > with having or not > having a tty at startup time, or else to do with > boot order -- maybe > if you try changing the script name to > 'zzzswatch.sh' to force it to > be started up last it will work better. Matthew, I followed your suggestion to rename it zzzswatch.sh and that solved the problem - it now starts swatch. (My curiosity still remains as to what wasn't ready or which other process was clobbering swatch, but I don't have the time to chase this rabbit). Thank you for the guidance! Henri _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com
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