[Webware-discuss] launch at boot on macos x

[Mark P. <ma...@mo...>]

I am having trouble launching Webware at boot on MacOS X 10.3.9. A 
StartupItem is the Apple method to launch a program on MacOS X at boot 
or login. It is merely a shell script and a preference files in a 
specific location.

I have installed Webware for Python on the osx server in the normal 
manner. I can start and stop it using cli as root or admin. The system 
responds correctly to the browser requests. I followed the instructions 
for creating a Startup Item at <http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/4288> 
but Webware is unresponsive after reboot.

I am pretty confident permissions are correct as I compared my files 
and the Webware files, to the OpenBase install. The OpenBase server 
fires up every time. For the record, it is root:wheel for all of them.

The system log shows the console message. So the startupitem script is 
executing. I noticed the process is called "AppServer" when started 
from the cli but "python" when started from the reboot sequence.

Any thoughts, suggestions or links would be warmly accepted.

Mark Phillips