[MacTUG] UW Emerge on the Macs

[Steve Hellyer]

Yes you can manage login items with Workgroup manager but on a computer or computer group basis.  Doesn't work with Users or groups.  Think you want computer anyway from what I have seen so far on this thread, but maybe mistaken as not sure what Emerge is. 

If it's a command line application you can incorporate into either login hook (See Scripts image below) or create a simple Applescript to launch the shell command which get include with items.  This need to be present on the base image so it can be run at login.

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Regards,

Steve

On 2011-02-01, at 8:52 AM, Donald Duff-McCracken wrote:

> Regarding Marlon's comments about having it start with login, I don't
> think you should need to use cron or launchd, just having it as a 'login
> item' should suffice, should it not? In a lab environment I can have this
> controlled by WorkGroup Manager.
> 
> On 11-01-31 3:14 PM, "Marlon A. Griffith" <m3griffi at engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>> I spoke to Erick. He said that emergestart just starts the connection
>> process to the emergency service. He did not know of a way to have it
>> start for everyone who logs in, on a mac. If you know of a way, then just
>> use that.
>> 
>> I would suggests Apple's cron replacement, whose name escapes me at the
>> moment.
>> 
>> By the way, Ian is correct wrt the"go to the web page" stuff.
>> 
>> Marlon
>> 
>> 
>> On 31/01/11 2:48 PM, Ian Turner wrote:
>>> I didn't put it in the labs, but for our manually managed staff
>>> machines, I installed it, and gave them the instructions to add it to
>>> their login
>>> 
>>> I did do the "go to the web page" stuff, but it was ONLY to get the test
>>> for "verify a test message gets here" on a couple of machines
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2011/01/31 14:14 , Donald Duff-McCracken wrote:
>>>> So some clarification of how uw emerge works on the Mac (especially if
>>>> it
>>>> was to be in a lab)...
>>>> 
>>>> If one installs it on a Mac, does one merely have to set it to start
>>>> up on
>>>> login?
>>>> 
>>>> The instructions at http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/download/uw_emerge/mac.html
>>>> are a wee bit confusing.
>>>> 
>>>> Under "Verifying Emerge Works" it talks about going to
>>>> emerge.uwaterloo.ca
>>>> and loging in. Can anyone confirm that this logging in part is just for
>>>> the verification, ie, if I was to install this in my labs, I would not
>>>> need to go through this step? Is all I need to do to install it on the
>>>> lab
>>>> Macs, and ensure (via either a loginhook or the login items method)
>>>> that
>>>> it is running on login??
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks...
>>>> don
>>>> 
>>>> On 11-01-31 11:20 AM, "Dani Roloson"<daroloso at mfcf.math.uwaterloo.ca>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone tried making this a login hook rather than having every user
>>>>> to ever use the machine add it to their login items?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dani
>>>>> MFCF
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