Re: [PD] pd patch startup at boot - ubuntu-server

Hi Mark,

mark edward grimm wrote:

I took a look at this thread: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2004-10/022984.html

and gave it a whirl with no luck on ubuntu... it seems like there should be an easier way to do this.

I took a bunch of notes from various sources on this. Almost all are from posts on the PD list, however I don't have the authors names attached anymore. Apologies to the original posters!

But anyway, you should be able to find a solution somewhere in these suggestions! It largely depends on whether or not you are running X (which I imagine on a server you are not!)

best, d.

to autostart on linux

put a symlink in your rc3.d (or with whatever runlevel you boot by default, this is set in /etc/inittab)

called S19pd_start (any number, but be sure, all other important processes are started before/lower numbers...) to a script named pd_start

linux then calls this script with the argument "start" when booting. the script "pd_start" looks like:

################################# beginning of script #############################

#! /bin/sh

# Check for missing binaries (stale symlinks should not happen) PD_BIN=/usr/local/pd/bin/pd test -x $PD_BIN || exit 5

case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting PD" ## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails ## the return value is set appropriately by startproc. /usr/local/pd/bin/pd -nogui -noadc -audiobuf 20 -r 22050
-lib /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp/pdp
-lib /usr/local/lib/pd/externs/zexy
-path /home/marius
-path /usr/local/lib/pd/pdp
-path /usr/local/lib/pd/externs/zexy
/home/marius/application.pd & ;; ## mind the &!!! stop) echo -n "Shutting down FOO " ## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails ## killproc sets the return value according to LSB.

   kill 'cat /var/run/pd.pid'
   ;;

 restart)
   ## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was
   ## running or not, start it again.
   $0 stop
   $0 start
   ;;

 *)
   echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
   exit 1
   ;;

esac

################################## end of script #######################

-- /etc/rc.d/rc.local: #!/bin/sh echo -n "starting pd..." PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin /usr/local/bin/pd_start