Overview
This article explains how to setup Urchin 4 startup scripts on a Mac OS X Server or Workstation. The following instructions assume that the user has administrative access to the machine and has a basic knowledge of editing files via the terminal application. Executable commands are shown in () for some items.
- Download the Mac OS X startup scripts archive to your Desktop using a web browser
- Open the Terminal application located in :Applications:Utilities
- Uncompress the archive with gunzip (gunzip ~/Desktop/MacOSXStartupItemsUrchin40.tar.gz)
- Change into the /Library directory (cd /Library)
- Untar the MacOSXStartupItemsUrchin40.tar file (sudo tar xf ~/Desktop/MacOSXStartupItemsUrchin40.tar
- If you installed Urchin 4 into a directory other than /usr/local/urchin4, edit the /Library/StartupItems/Urchin4/Urchin4 file and change the line that says "cd /usr/local/urchin4/bin/" to reflect the appropriate path change. For instance, if Urchin 4 was installed in /Applications/urchin4, the line would need to be changed to "cd /Applications/urchin4/bin".
- Edit the /etc/hostconfig and add the following line:
URCHIN4=-YES- - Restart the machine and verify that the Urchin services started properly by accessing them through your web browser.