Mac OSX: Run at boot?

[RogerTX]

Hi. Was a Prime95 user long ago, but then ran into problems and stopped. Glad to see it is working again, and that other platforms are supported.

I have P95 running as a service under Win7 (thanks for the post), and have it running on boot on my Ubuntu (linux) box. It is installed on my Mac OSX, but it only runs when I log in. The MAC is the the that is on 24x7, but I'm not always logged in (it is a family computer that many use). It would be great to start it on boot.

My (limited) research so far makes this look very complicated. So, I wondered if anyone else here has this running at boot on Mac OSX and can share how this is done.

(I searched the forums for "Mac" and for "OSX" and found no matches).

[Mark Rose]

I used to run mprime on a Mac. The easiest way is to run it in screen via a crontab.

Install the screen command if your Mac doesn't have it.

Then put this in your crontab:

@reboot screen -S mprime -d -m /Users/RogerTX/path/to/mprime.exe -d

Then to watch progress, run `screen -r mprime`. To detach from screen, type crtl-a, then d. Not sure which key is the control key on Mac though. If you ever kill mprime, just run it again as above by copying everything after @reboot.


Not sure about the GUI version.

[RogerTX]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

I used to run mprime on a Mac. The easiest way is to run it in screen via a crontab.

Install the screen command if your Mac doesn't have it.

Then put this in your crontab:

@reboot screen -S mprime -d -m /Users/RogerTX/path/to/mprime.exe -d

Then to watch progress, run `screen -r mprime`. To detach from screen, type crtl-a, then d. Not sure which key is the control key on Mac though. If you ever kill mprime, just run it again as above by copying everything after @reboot.


Not sure about the GUI version.

Thanks; I'll have to play with this. How do I install "screen"?

[RogerTX]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

I used to run mprime on a Mac. The easiest way is to run it in screen via a crontab.

Install the screen command if your Mac doesn't have it.

Then put this in your crontab:

@reboot screen -S mprime -d -m /Users/RogerTX/path/to/mprime.exe -d

Then to watch progress, run `screen -r mprime`. To detach from screen, type crtl-a, then d. Not sure which key is the control key on Mac though. If you ever kill mprime, just run it again as above by copying everything after @reboot.


Not sure about the GUI version.

I have the screen command -- attempting to set this up now.

[RogerTX]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

I used to run mprime on a Mac. The easiest way is to run it in screen via a crontab.

Install the screen command if your Mac doesn't have it.

Then put this in your crontab:

@reboot screen -S mprime -d -m /Users/RogerTX/path/to/mprime.exe -d

Then to watch progress, run `screen -r mprime`. To detach from screen, type crtl-a, then d. Not sure which key is the control key on Mac though. If you ever kill mprime, just run it again as above by copying everything after @reboot.


Not sure about the GUI version.

Well, I only had the Mac OSX 64-bit GUI version -- there isn't an "mprime"; only the GUI version. It puts displays up on the screen, so I don't think it will run at reboot.

However, I did just find the command line version, so I'm going to give that a try