StartMonitor(1M)                                 StartMonitor(1M)



     NAME
          StartMonitor - display a progress bar during the  A/UX(Reg.)
          boot sequence

     SYNOPSIS
          StartMonitor

     DESCRIPTION
          StartMonitor displays a Macintosh(Reg.) dialog box with a
          progress bar during the latter stages of the A/UX boot pro-
          cess (after A/UX startup has passed control to the kernel
          and the kernel has launched init.  macsysinit, which is the
          first entry in /etc/inittab, invokes startmac with
          StartMonitor as the ``Finder'' application (using the -f
          flag of startmac).

          StartMonitor receives messages via a System V message queue
          from other processes involved in booting the system.  These
          messages indicate the total number of boot phases, the
          current boot phase, what percentage of that phase has fin-
          ished, the ID of messages to be displayed, and the strings
          to substitute for parameters in the message strings. The
          message strings are stored in the string list in the
          StartMonitor resource file
          (/mac/sys/Startup System Folder/%StartMonitor).  The message
          ID is its position in the string list.

          StartMonitor exits when it receives a quit message.

          Shell scripts involved in booting invoke startmsg with ap-
          propriate arguments to send messages. fsck sends messages
          directly to StartMonitor.  After the root file system has
          been checked, applications that need to send messages to
          StartMonitor could invoke startmsg to do it for them.  If
          many messages need to be sent, the application could create
          a pipe to startmsg and write startmsg argument strings into
          the pipe.

     FILES
          /mac/sys/Startup System Folder/StartMonitor
          /mac/sys/Startup System Folder/%StartMonitor
          /usr/include/sys/startmsg.h

     SEE ALSO
          macsysinit(1M), startmsg(1M).










     April, 1990                                                     1