[genevish]

I tried this:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /Users/Shared/libgmail-0.0.8/demos/gmailpopd.py

But it freezes on a blank blue screen at startup (before the login window appears). I'm thinking it's not returning control to the loginwindow maybe. Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Scott

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by genevish:
I tried this:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /Users/Shared/libgmail-0.0.8/demos/gmailpopd.py

But it freezes on a blank blue screen at startup (before the login window appears). I'm thinking it's not returning control to the loginwindow maybe. Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Scott

If it's a daemon, make a StartupItem in /Library/StartupItems and start it from there. I'm not familiar with LoginHook, but I assume you want this running when the machine starts up and not when you log into it. If this is the case, a StartupItem is the way to go. If you want to launch it on login, you probably just want to wrap the shell command in an AppleScript and then make the script a "Startup Item" in the System Preferences, which is a user-level event.