[OpenAFS-devel] [OSX] Service startup proposal

[Franco Milicchio]

Hi.

I've been looking for the best way of starting and stopping AFS,  
following Apple's guidelines (having care of back-compatibility with  
pre-tiger, so no pure launchd service).

In /etc/hostconfig I'd add a line corresponding to the start-at-boot  
flag:

OPENAFS=-YES-
OPENAFS=-NO-

In /Library/StartupItems/OpenAFS/OpenAFS script, I'd modify the  
startup script adding at the top of StartService() the lines commonly  
used in system scripts like network time (or equivalent of course):

StartService()
{
    if [ "${OPENAFS}:=YES" = "-YES-" ]; then
       start afs
    else
       whatever
    fi
}

This way, a user can select wether or not to have AFS at boot, and  
manually starting and stopping it. I'm writing a small applescript  
for this, easing some users of AFS with laptops. We use a lot AFS,  
and many would also use it on laptops, but network loss, AFS and  
finder don't mix :)

My idea in the future is to add some way an item to ``Sharing''  
preferences to start and stop AFS, and set some options. Some way...  
it should be possible.

What do you think about this? Is it that stupid? :)

--
Franco Milicchio <milicchio@dia.uniroma3.it>

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears it is true.      [J. Robert Oppenheimer]