Persistent IP Routes in Mac OS X Tiger

Question

Hello
I have a mac book Pro 10.4.8. I try to add static Routes, i was following this post
http://www.webboise.com/persistent-ip-routes-in-mac-os-x-tiger/
My problem is when after the reboot the rootes was deleted. I must launch directly the script on the Terminal
sudo SystemStarter start PersistentRoutes
Can you help Me ?
Thans You

Answer 1

to have the EXACT same name as the directory, so
/Library/StartupItems/static-routes/static-routes has
to have the same case sensitive name as
/Library/StartupItems/static-routes/ .
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root# ls -l /Library/StartupItems/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Oct 15 13:17 CoreDuoTemp
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Jan 13 2005 OpenBase
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 27 11:41 PersistentRoutes
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root# ls -l /Library/StartupItems/PersistentRoutes/
total 16
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 252 Dec 27 11:51 PersistentRoutes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 501 Aug 24 00:52 StartupParameters.plist
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root#
it's correct ?
The script will be called with an argument of start,
so I'd recommend keeping the . /etc/rc.common command
and the StartService() framework.
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root# cat /Library/StartupItems/PersistentRoutes/PersistentRoutes
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/rc.common
ConsoleMessage "Adding Persistent IP Routes"
/sbin/route add 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.1.252
/sbin/route add 192.168.5.0/24 192.168.1.253
/sbin/route add 192.168.6.0/24 192.168.1.252
/sbin/route add 192.168.7.0/24 192.168.1.252
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root#
Always correct ?
The StartupParameters.plist file is a text file
rw-r--r-- (chmod 0644 StartupParameters.plist). It's
bracketed by { and }. The only two lines in mine
that look important are:
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root# cat /Library/StartupItems/PersistentRoutes/StartupParameters
.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Description</key>
<string>Persistent Routes for VPN Tunnels</string>
<key>OrderPreference</key>
<string>Last</string>
<key>Provides</key>
<array>
<string>PersistentRoutes</string>
</array>
<key>Uses</key>
<array>
<string>Network</string>
<string>NetworkExtensions</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
Mine is correct ?
If this stuff doesn't take care of it, could you post
the results of:
ls -l /Library/StartupItems | egrep static-routes
ls -l /Library/StartupItems/static-routes
cat
/Library/StartupItems/static-routes/static-routes
cat
/Library/StartupItems/static-routes/StartupParameters.
plist
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root# ls -l /Library/StartupItems | egrep PersistentRoutes
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 27 11:41 PersistentRoutes
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root# ls -l /Library/StartupItems/PersistentRoutes/
total 16
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 252 Dec 27 11:51 PersistentRoutes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 501 Aug 24 00:52 StartupParameters.plist
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root# cat /Library/StartupItems/PersistentRoutes/StartupParameters
.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Description</key>
<string>Persistent Routes for VPN Tunnels</string>
<key>OrderPreference</key>
<string>Last</string>
<key>Provides</key>
<array>
<string>PersistentRoutes</string>
</array>
<key>Uses</key>
<array>
<string>Network</string>
<string>NetworkExtensions</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
pc-mq-dsi3:~ root# cat /Library/StartupItems/PersistentRoutes/PersistentRoutes
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/rc.common
ConsoleMessage "Adding Persistent IP Routes"
/sbin/route add 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.1.252
/sbin/route add 192.168.5.0/24 192.168.1.253
/sbin/route add 192.168.6.0/24 192.168.1.252
/sbin/route add 192.168.7.0/24 192.168.1.252
Thanks for your help
Bolo