Python application in rc.d.

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sun Jun 20 12:02:10 PDT 2004


Lewis Thompson wrote:
> I'm trying to create a port for a Python application that I want to
> start from local/etc/rc.d.  The command is this:
> 
> /usr/bin/su freevo -c "/usr/local/bin/freevo -fs start" > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
>   Unfortunately when I boot up I get a message about Python not being
> configured/available at this time.

Does the script set $PATH to include the location where python is?  If you 
don't list /usr/local/bin explicitly, this may be the problem...

-- 
-Chuck



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