jrlamar
01-06-2009, 11:27 AM
OK, here's the situation: I'd like to run SuperDuper! on an unattended, scheduled Smart Update copy in the middle of the night. And since I have a bunch of startup/login items -- Microsoft AU and Database Daemons, some Palm syncing utilities, etc. -- I know it would be best practice to boot in Safe Mode. But I can't be here to do a conventional safe boot (physically holding down the Shift key during startup).
So what would be the best (but not necessarily easiest) solution to deal with this from a command-line scripting standpoint? Execute a shell script before SD runs that tells each app to quit individually? Or script something out for the Mac OS that could automate a Safe Mode boot?
By the way, I would always go right to a system shutdown as soon as SD finished its job, so I assume I wouldn't need to run a shell script after the copying completes -- and that everything would just start back up as normal on the next boot.
Thanks!
Jason
So what would be the best (but not necessarily easiest) solution to deal with this from a command-line scripting standpoint? Execute a shell script before SD runs that tells each app to quit individually? Or script something out for the Mac OS that could automate a Safe Mode boot?
By the way, I would always go right to a system shutdown as soon as SD finished its job, so I assume I wouldn't need to run a shell script after the copying completes -- and that everything would just start back up as normal on the next boot.
Thanks!
Jason