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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


		
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