UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Networking on the MAC is so hard...I hope some can help...

I need to know how to write a UNIX script that will autostart when OS X boots, and that executes this line:

route add -net 10.10.10.0 10.10.11.10 255.255.255.0


PLEASE HELP ME

WILL

Welcome to the forums, but please do not post derogatory comments about OS's. Personal opinion like this will just end up causing a flame war.

The rules are clear on this.

Thanks,
ZB

hi

Go to google.com and type the following in the search box, and you can go from there.

MAC OS-X unix script boots

You can always search for unix scripts for MAC OS-X systems on the web

Best of luck to you.

Luis

I also found this page on the net:

http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_startup.html

you will find it very useful.


GO TO THE WEB PAGE AND LOOK FOR THE PART THAT SAYS:

From here on, the startup becomes user-level:

mach_init starts /sbin/init, the traditional BSD init process. init determines the runlevel, and runs /etc/rc.boot, which sets up the machine enough to run single-user.

During its execution, rc.boot and the other rc scripts source /etc/rc.common, a shell script containing utility functions, such as CheckForNetwork() (checks if the network is up), GetPID(), purgedir() (deletes directory contents only, not the structure), etc.

rc.boot figures out the type of boot (Multi-User, Safe, CD-ROM, Network etc.).

In case of a network boot (the sysctl variable kern.netboot will be set to 1 in which case), it runs /etc/rc.netboot with a start argument.

/etc/rc.netboot handles various aspects of network booting. For example, it performs network and (if any) local mounts.

It also calls /usr/bin/nbst to associate a shadow file with the disk image being used as the root device. The idea is to redirect writes to the shadow file, which hopefully is on local storage.


GOOD LUCK AGIAN

Thanks for the help...

I went to the site and I added the route add into the rc.common file.

IT WORKS!!!! THANK YOU!!!!