Startup items

[thejadedmonkey]

Hi all. I was just wondering, where do start up items go under OS X?

 

[SpaceMagic]

System Preferences -> Accounts -> Start up items

 

[thejadedmonkey]

and if, for example, say, I had OSXVNX server starting up, where would that start up item go?

 

[Le Big Mac]

and if, for example, say, I had OSXVNX server starting up, where would that start up item go?

Doesn't matter. Just choose the application in the system prefs. message. OS X will know where to look.

 

[superwoman]

System Preferences -> Accounts -> Start up items

But this will only start the app upon a user login, not when the machine starts up.

I think the relevant directories are /System/Library/StartupItems and /Library/StartupItems. The former is supposedly for system-installed startup scripts, whiel the latter is for user-installed scripts. The existing scripts inside are pretty much self-explanatory to start you up.

If you're using Tiger, I think the new model is launch daemons, located inside /System/Library/LaunchDaemons and /Library/LaunchDaemons. But I'm not too sure how they work...

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Thank you all...
this was worrying me since I only knew about the place in the system preferences and I was like "whoa...why is my mac doing something when I have no idea how it's doing it"