Comments on: Installing memcached on OS X 10.5.4 Leopard

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By: Mauvis

Mauvis — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:05:34 +0000

Hi Neil, to create this script open up textedit (convert it to plaintext mode) and copy and past the script above and save it with no file extension. I put all my one-off scripts in a folder called scripts in the root of my drive.

From there you can run the script by going to that folder in terminal and typing ./memcached. I don’t run memcached on startup because when I’m not doing web dev I don’t want it running. (Currently, I have an Eclipse “external tool” script to turn it off an on, for use in a java environment.)

To run memcached on startup you have three options that I can think of:

1) You can make the script a finder executable file by renaming it with a .command extension. Then you can leave it on your desktop and just double click it when you want it to run or link the file in your startup menu items in system preferences (if you’re on a mac). This has the probably unwanted side effect of popping open a new terminal window.

2) You can make a small applescript app that will run that terminal command and link to that in your startup – my applescript knowledge is limited, but I know this is doable.

3) You can create an official startup item. It’s a little complex but probably the best option:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Articles/StartupItems.html
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/21/startup.html

Kickapps is doing good. Lots of cool stuff coming down the pipeline.

GitHub looks really interesting. I’m signed up but have yet to contribute to anything yet.

Nice blog. I enjoyed the MyBlogLog video.

Cheers,

Mauvis

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:47:19 +0000

Thanks for this. I’ve reached step 8 and I can see memcached is running – now I just need to follow the Railscasts and get set-up with Cache_fu. After a year on mac, I hadn’t used Mac Ports before and I didn’t know if installing it over the top of my existing os software would cause any problems – and installing Memcached without Memcached looked a little tricky and all the tutorials seemed years out of date – but I seem to be there now.

I haven’t set up the bash script, though – sorry for the newbie question – how do I actually do that? By the sounds of it, Memcached isn’t configured to start up when I boot OS X, so the bash script looks like a must-have.

How are things going at KickApps? Are you on Git/GitHub, per chance?