Autostart Wildfire on Mac OS 10.4.4

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Has anyone configured Mac OS 10.4.4 to autostart Wildfire on boot up (but prior to anyone logging in)?

I’‘m about to pull what little hair I have left on my head trying to figure this out. I’‘ve messed with the start lists and no dice. I’'ve spent about 30 minutes making a plist for launchd and no dice with that either.

Any advice would be greatly welcomed.

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Hi Tom,

You might want to take a look at url=http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/21/startup.htmlthis O’'Reilly article[/url] which:

“…give[s] an overview of how StartupItems fit into the OS X startup process, what you need to do to create a Startup Item, and provide an example of a StartupItem that will run the Apache project’'s Tomcat Java servlet engine.”

I’'m sure you could modify the sample Tomcat StartupItem to work with Wildfire.

Hope that helps,

Ryan

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In 10.4 the prescribed method is to create yourself a startup-triggered launchd item.

See this url=http://www.macworld.com/2005/12/secrets/febgeekfactorside/index.phpMacworld article[/url] for more detail. Lingon (described in the article) is a great tool for hacking launchd.

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Thanks for the tips guys. But I’‘ve tried both of these methods and still nothing. I’'m not sure where/how to begin troubleshooting the problem.

Ideas?

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that’'s how it works in lauchnd:

using lingon’'s assistant enter the following:

page 1: “run job at startup”

page 2: give it any label you want and UNcheck the log in checkbox

page 3: enter the following command (depending where you have installed wildfire - mine is installed under /usr/bin/wildfire/): /usr/bin/wildfire/bin/wildfire start

the result is put under “user agents” in lingon and will start the server immediately upon load.

the xml looks like this:

hope this helps!

btw, wildfire runs beautifully under mac os x 10.4.6 and java 1.5

cheers

joerg