[MacTUG] UW Emerge on the Macs

[Ian Turner]

I think you mean launchd

we use Lingon as the nice friendly interface to it

BUT
I'm not sure that you actually want emerge running as a system daemon; 
by having it in the user login, it does actually "call home" in the 
users name

that's one reason I backed out the change on my machine - it violates 
privacy, and that wasn't very clear to me in the advertising



On 2011/01/31 15:14 , Marlon A. Griffith 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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