Eject all

[chabig]

When you log out or shutdown, the system tells each running application to quit, so you could just add an Applescript to your login items that does nothing. But when told to quit, ejects all disks.

Chris

[mervTormel]

ha! chris, that is a real clever idea. must refrain from doing too much at that point, perhaps, since shutdown is imminent and services are going bye-bye? hmm...

[chabig]

OK. I searched the Developer docs and figured out how to run a script at logout. If you have installed the Developer tools, the instructions will open if you click this link: file:///Developer/Documentation/Esse...rocedures.html

It works like this--You have a file at /etc/ttys which contains among other things, this line:

console "/System/Library/CoreServices/
loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow" vt100 
on secure window=/System/Library/CoreServices/WindowServer 
onoption="/usr/libexec/
getty std.9600"

BTW: This is really one long line. To make it wrap properly in Safari, I broke the line into several lines. Just remember that it's really one line.

This line tells the init program to launch loginwindow on the console terminal and to use WindowServer (which is a symbolic link to the Window Manager process) as the windowing-system process. Into this line, you can insert additional parameters for loginwindow to process.

Two useful parameters are -LoginHook and -LogoutHook. These particularly are permit custom administrative, accounting, or security programs to run as part of the login and logout procedures.

All you have to do is insert the parameter and the full path to the script you want to run, like this:

console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/
loginwindow -LoginHook /Users/Username/Scripts/ejectDisksOnLogout" 
vt100 on secure window=/System/Library/CoreServices/WindowServer 
onoption="/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"

Where you have created a script called "ejectDisksOnLogout" and placed it in a folder at ~/Scripts/

I assume the script probably cannot be an Applescript, but must be something that you could run from the Terminal.

Chris

[mclbruce]

Quote: Originally posted by chabig When you log out or shutdown, the system tells each running application to quit, so you could just add an Applescript to your login items that does nothing. But when told to quit, ejects all disks. Chris

I think you are on to something there. Your code would then look something like this:

on quit
tell application "Finder"
eject the disks
end tell
end quit

I think this would work well. As far as Merv's objections go, I think logging out is pretty polite to running apps, giving them time to save things or do whatever they need to do. I guess you'd have to try it and see what happens.

The next enhancement I can think of is to make it faceless so it doesn't show up in the dock.

[chabig]

Quote: on quit tell application "Finder" eject the disks end tell end quit

Exactly!

Now about hiding the dock icon...I saw this here at MacOSXHints:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...10701191518268

Chris

[V-tach]

To me it would seem more elegant to use the -Logout Hook mentioned above. Could I get a shell script to run this Applescript on Shutdown, rather than have it running all the time?

[sapporo]

How about

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to eject the disks'

HTH,
-sapporo.