[OpenAFS-devel] [OSX] Service startup proposal

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Franco Milicchio wrote:

> 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).

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>
> 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? :)

I don't think it's a bad idea, but I'm curious why you'd not want to start 
it.

Derrick