v6.2 and Mac OS X Startup?

[rei]

Hi all,

I just upgraded to 6.2 of SlimServer under Mac OS X Tiger, and even if I choose the "Automatically Start When System Boots" option in the System Preferences, SlimServer does not want to start by itself. I can manually start it using the "Start Server" button. Any ideas on how to go about troubleshooting and fixing this?

Thanks in advance for any pointers,

-Rei

[danco]

On 31/10/05 at 07:56 -0800, rei wrote
>Hi all,
>
>I just upgraded to 6.2 of SlimServer under Mac OS X Tiger, and even if
>I choose the "Automatically Start When System Boots" option in the
>System Preferences, SlimServer does not want to start by itself. I can
>manually start it using the "Start Server" button. Any ideas on how to
>go about troubleshooting and fixing this?

Did you install for all users or just for one user?

I installed just for one user. I have a vague recollection that I
found the same problem, and so I switched to Start at Login, which
does work for me. And there doesn't seem to be any advantage in
starting at boot (even if it works) in this situation.

Maybe someone from SlimDevices can give a definitive answer, but it
would not surprise me if "Start at Boot" only works when the
preference pane is installed for all users.
--
Daniel Cohen

[Fred]

To start at boot, the Slim Preference pane needs to be admin. It creates/modifies
/Library/StartupItems/Slim
Note the inital /, this is not the user Library folder, but the system one.

Do you have that item in /Library/StartupItems? Are you admin or asked to authenticate?

Installing for one or all user just changes the location of the preference pane. In all case is the StartupItems element created in /Library.

It is easier for us if you use bugs.slimdevices.com to post such bugs, keeps things tracked.

Fred

[rei]

To start at boot, the Slim Preference pane needs to be admin. It creates/modifies
/Library/StartupItems/Slim
Note the inital /, this is not the user Library folder, but the system one.

Do you have that item in /Library/StartupItems? Are you admin or asked to authenticate?

Installing for one or all user just changes the location of the preference pane. In all case is the StartupItems element created in /Library.

It is easier for us if you use bugs.slimdevices.com to post such bugs, keeps things tracked.

Fred

I will use the bugs.slimdevices.com in the future. Thanks.

The /Library/StartupItems/Slim does exist. I installed as an admin user. My account is an admin account. SlimServer does not start automatically at boot time. Are there any logs I can check to see what the problem might be? I will try the "Automatically Start When I Log In" option, or manually start for the time being.

g5:/Library/StartupItems rei$ ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 442 Nov 1 10:05 .
drwxrwxr-x 55 root admin 1870 Nov 1 10:00 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 6148 Nov 1 10:00 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 May 13 08:00 MySQLCOM
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Sep 20 19:20 NortonAutoProtect
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 Aug 28 09:02 NortonAutoProtect.kextcache
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 May 4 18:28 NortonMissedTasks
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Jan 13 2005 OpenBase
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Jun 23 2004 Qmaster
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Sep 30 17:10 RetroClient
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 May 28 02:00 RetroRun
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Nov 1 10:05 Slim
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Oct 22 2004 VirtualPCOSServices

When I toggle the "Automatically Start" popup menu, the system does ask me to authenticate.

Thanks,

-Rei

[danco]

On 1/11/05 at 10:05 -0800, rei wrote
>fred (AT) thomascorner (DOT) com Wrote:
>
> > It is easier for us if you use bugs.slimdevices.com to post such bugs,
>> keeps things tracked.
>>
>> Fred
>
>I will use the bugs.slimdevices.com in the future. Thanks.

But often the first thing to check is whether one has a bug or needs
to adjust settings somehow.

So asking in the forum should come before posting something as a bug.
--
Daniel Cohen