Hi Ben, Alexandre,
I think Alex is worried about his file system. The answer is simple:
- Mount all drives read-only in /etc/fstab
- Put a startup script so that whenever the machine is booted, it
starts your patch (check PD archives for this, there was lots of discussion. My solution is pasted below***) 3) Museum/gallery people can *never* be bothered to learn how to start/stop things safely, so if you do the above they can hit the power button/turn off the circuitbreaker/pull the plug/do whatever to it every night and you shouldn't have any problems. I've run several installations in this way before.
best, d.
*** I used .xinitrc to start everything:
#~/.xinitrc # make sure your system is set up so that X starts when the machine boots, and it autologs you as this user! # first set LADSPA_PATH for [plugin~] # open alsamixer to set soundcard levels # make sure jackd isn't running already by killing it # start jackd [if PD uses it in your case] # start pd [optional: use -open /path/to/installation.patch.pd if it's not in your ~/.pdrc or ~/.pdsettings]
export LADSPA_PATH=/usr/lib/ladspa fluxbox & xterm -exec alsamixer & killall jackd & jackd -d alsa r 44100 & pd
# end ~/.xinitrc
B. Bogart wrote:
Are you worried about wearing out the HW? (mechanical parts?)
The whole idea behind this is to avoid to suddenly turn off the computer, which would probably corrupt the file system at some point. Of course I use GNU/Linux : probably Ubuntu Server or Debian.