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Authored by: etrepum on Jul 22, '02 05:56:19PM

It's a bad idea to go changing around anything in /System because an update to OS X could easily clobber it. Make your own StartupItem and throw it in /Library. I won't describe the process in detail but it's painfully obvious if you are familiar with shell scripting and take a look at any of the ones that are there.



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Would be nice to see a how to article w/correct info
Authored by: jasonxz on Jul 24, '02 01:18:45PM

Considering all the reported errors in the original posting and now the advice that this should be done with a Startup Item, it would be very helpful to have an article posted on how to do this correctly via Startup Items. I was so confused by all the corections in the comments that I've just given up.



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RE:Would be nice to see a how to article w/correct info
Authored by: timrob on Jul 24, '02 03:23:47PM

Well, If there is enough interest, I would write it out in plain text.
The errors were a result of my failure to escape certain characters
which have different meaning to HTML than to the shell.
You'll notice I did use a StartupItem. The suggestion was to create a new
one in /Library/StartupItems. There have already been a number of hints that
explain how to do that. If we are lucky this will be a feature in 10.2.
If that does wind up being the case then most of this hint would be moot.
All that would be needed would be to create/edit /etc/sysctl.conf.
In any case, if this seems difficult to you even with corrections then perhaps
it is not an area you should be fooling around with anyway.



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