How do I set Terminal scripts to run at start up on Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

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pitachip picture pitachip · Sep 21, 2012 · Viewed 33.3k times · Source

Hello I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.8. How can I set some simple Terminal commands to run on start up as if I was opening up Terminal and putting those commands in myself? I basically need to start a few server daemons on start up. The commands I use in Terminal to manually start them look like sudo ruby myrubyserverscript_control.rb start. I apologize in advance if this is super obvious or already answered on here a million times in some way I don't know enough to recognize.

Answer

jm666 picture jm666 · Sep 21, 2012

Here are two different things:

  1. you want run a script after the system startup (boot), or
  2. when you logging in

for run a script at boot, you should put one XML config file into /Library/LaunchDaemons (and the launchd process will run the script at the boot time)

for run a script after you logging in - see this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6445525/632407

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