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- From: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch (Renato Bruno Pajarola)
- Subject: rc.local
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:04:28 GMT
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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
-
- There's a hell of a good universe NeXT door; let's go ...
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