Manually Start a StartUp Item

Generally a Startup Item in /Library/StartupItems/ has a script that is run at start up. All you have to do is find the script and run it in the Terminal. For example, Timbuktu has a startup item..

yellow% ls -laF /Library/StartupItems/TimbuktuStartup/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Mar 25 2005 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Oct 13 13:07 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 638 Mar 11 2003 StartupParameters.plist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 430 Mar 25 2005 TimbuktuStartup*

The script is the executable one, TimbuktuStartup. Looking at it:

yellow% more TimbuktuStartup
#!/bin/sh

##
# Start Timbuktu Host Relauncher
##
# WARNING: Be careful to preserve Unix line endings in this file.
#

. /etc/rc.common

ConsoleMessage "Starting Timbuktu Host"

'/Applications/Timbuktu Pro/Timbuktu Pro.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Host Relauncher' '/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Support/LaunchCFMApp' '/Applications/Timbuktu Pro/Timbuktu Pro.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Timbuktu Extension'

It's just a shell script. So to invoke it, all I have to do is (if I am in the directory that the shell script is in):

yellow% sudo ./TimbuktuStartup
Password:
Starting Timbuktu Host

Enter my admin password, and it restarts.

Take a look at 'launchctl' typically 'launchctl start plistname' can be used to start a startup item

Generally a Startup Item in /Library/StartupItems/ has a script that is run at start up. All you have to do is find the script and run it in the Terminal. For example, Timbuktu has a startup item..
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If you want to go through all the steps the OS would (including it making sure prerequisites are started), use SystemStarter:

sudo /sbin/SystemStarter start TimbuktuStartup

See the SystemStarter manpage for details.

Thanks guys.

I tried all three ways of doing it. The first i get this message:


$ sudo ./MediaServer ./MediaServer: line 52: $1: unbound variable

then i went into the workdir=/usr/local/mediaserver where the script points to and did the same thing "sudo ./MediaServer" the server starts running but as soon as i quit terminal it stops.

the second "launchctl start plistname" comes back with a message

drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Dec 22 18:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 Dec 22 18:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6148 Nov 25 08:55 .DS_Store
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 838 Dec 20 12:25 MediaServer
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Dec 22 18:26 Resources
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 658 Apr 27 2005 StartupParameters.plist
Filips-PowerBook-G4:/Library/StartupItems/MediaServer filip$ launchctl start StartupParameters.plist
launchctl start error: No such process


Now, the third option:

Filips-PowerBook-G4:/Library/StartupItems/MediaServer filip$ sudo /sbin/SystemStarter start MediaServer
No matching processes were found
rm: mediaserver: No such file or directory
No matching processes were found
rm: twonkymusic: No such file or directory
No matching processes were found
rm: twonkymedia-trial: No such file or directory
TwonkyMedia Version 3.0
Filips-PowerBook-G4:/Library/StartupItems/MediaServer filip$


hmm...i cant get any of these to work.
am I doing something wrong ?

Thanx

actually guys , this command seems to have done it. Its now running again.

Filips-PowerBook-G4:/Library/StartupItems/MediaServer filip$ sudo /sbin/SystemStarter start MediaServer
No matching processes were found
rm: mediaserver: No such file or directory
No matching processes were found
rm: twonkymusic: No such file or directory
No matching processes were found
rm: twonkymedia-trial: No such file or directory
TwonkyMedia Version 3.0
Filips-PowerBook-G4:/Library/StartupItems/MediaServer filip$

Many Thanks !