From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 16:11:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D69516A4CF for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:11:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53010.mail.yahoo.com (web53010.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E5C543D39 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:11:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ntwrk_engr@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20041015161158.78373.qmail@web53010.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.160.210.50] by web53010.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:11:58 PDT Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:11:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Henri Prudhomme To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <20041015094557.GC93093@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Swatch script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:11:59 -0000 --- Matthew Seaman 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