more on OS X AlienBCC startup

[Michael Tarr]

I have been trying to diagnose the fact that AlienBBC starts fine if
slimserver is started from my shell (tcsh fyi), but does not start up
correct if I startup slimserver via the prefpane or automatically at
boot.

Looking at shell script that is run - Start Slim Server.sh
it all appears okay, indeed, if I run the same command line from this
script manually all works. But not if it is sourced via prefpane or
boot. I am pretty sure it is a path and or search issue. In particular,
when I get the error, I don't see AlienBBC on the web page, but if I go
to the server plugins list, I see "Alien" which is the name of the
folder containing AlienBBC code. So I suspect somehow running under sh
rather than tcsh (or probably bash) causes a different behavior in how
the Plugins folder is parsed.

I am not clear if this is a problem with AlienBBC or something the Slim
people hadn't anticipated - that the plugins folder might contain
another folder full of code. And that under sh it works differently
than more advanced shells.

I don't think I can go beyond this.

FYI, I did try adding /usr/local/bin and /sw/bin to the path in
rc.common to see if it was a path problem in sh, but that didn't seem
to fix things

-m

[Daniel Cohen]

On 10/12/04 at 10:58 am -0500, Michael Tarr wrote
>I have been trying to diagnose the fact that AlienBBC starts fine if
>slimserver is started from my shell (tcsh fyi), but does not start
>up correct if I startup slimserver via the prefpane or automatically
>at boot.
>
>Looking at shell script that is run - Start Slim Server.sh
>it all appears okay, indeed, if I run the same command line from
>this script manually all works. But not if it is sourced via
>prefpane or boot. I am pretty sure it is a path and or search issue.
>In particular, when I get the error, I don't see AlienBBC on the web
>page, but if I go to the server plugins list, I see "Alien" which is
>the name of the folder containing AlienBBC code. So I suspect
>somehow running under sh rather than tcsh (or probably bash) causes
>a different behavior in how the Plugins folder is parsed.


I wondered the same. I am also using tcsh (I think - whatever was the
defualt *before* Panther). But I have never tried running a shell
script, I ran slimserver.pl, which is a perl script.

>
>I am not clear if this is a problem with AlienBBC or something the
>Slim people hadn't anticipated - that the plugins folder might
>contain another folder full of code. And that under sh it works
>differently than more advanced shells.


DateTime works ok, and also has its plugin inside a folder.

>
>I don't think I can go beyond this.
>
>FYI, I did try adding /usr/local/bin and /sw/bin to the path in
>rc.common to see if it was a path problem in sh, but that didn't
>seem to fix things
>
>-m
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