Startup tasks

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Jul 10 22:58:13 PDT 2014


On Jul 11, 2014, at 12:50 AM, Bill Christensen <billc_lists at greenbuilder.com> wrote:

> Though I've followed all the instructions presented while installing I'm getting spotty coverage on the starting of various services on reboot.  For instance, Apache, MySQL55 and Mailman all start on boot up.  However, though there are symlink items in /Library/LaunchDaemons for Fetchmail and PostgreSQL93 (org.macports.fetchmail.plist and org.macports.postgresql93-server.plist), and they will both start with manual commands, neither starts on boot.  
> 
> My current Fetchmail start command (run as a regular user) is:
> 
> /opt/local/bin/fetchmail -d 500 --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc --nodetach --nosyslog

Do you have MacPorts installed on a partition different from your OS X startup partition? I have noticed this problem when using such a configuration.



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