ODB Management on Mac OS

[Reg Paling]

Hi Mirko,

Do these scripts work on macOS 10.12 Sierra?

Startup Items has been deprecated for quite some time, and the Omnis 
documentation now recommends using launchd.
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/StartupItems.html
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000172i-SW7-BCIEDDBJ

I have been using launchd for some time now, but with each new release 
of macOS from 10.9 to 10.10 to 10.11 to 10.12, the percentage of 
bootstraps where the ODB starts up properly has become less and less.  
For macOS versions 10.9 to 10.11, I managed to get away with placing a 
script in the Login Items, which would try once again if the ODB had not 
started up the first time, and that seemed to work mostly.  Now with 
macOS Sierra, the OBD only starts up about 40% of the time, which means 
that adding a second try only increases the reliability to 64%.  It 
looks like I am going to have to do a loop, retrying until it starts up 
properly. I do wish that Omnis Engineering would take a look at why it's 
so unreliable.  It's my guess that it must be failing silently when some 
needed resource is not available, rather than trying again until it gets it.

Omnis support recommends setting KeepAlive to true, but I don't want to 
do this, firstly because it will tend to mask any problems (users are 
still disconnected when it stops and restarts) and secondly because I 
want to be able to stop the ODB for backups.

If your scripts work OK on Sierra, then maybe I will consider using 
them, even though Apple make no guarantees about support of Startup 
Items in future versions of macOS.

Cheers,
Reg



On 4/11/16 7:31 am, Mirko Pepa wrote:
> Hi Thad
>
> Here it is:
>
> www.helper.ch/download/OmnisDatabridge.zip
>
> Greetings
>
> Mirko
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>> Am 03.11.16 um 19:47 schrieb Thad Bogert <thad at technosolver.com>:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Does anyone have any tools or thoughts on how to automate the ODB on the Mac to stop at night for a backup?  On a similar note, does anyone know if it is safe to make copies of data files while the ODB is running and no clients are connected?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Thad
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