Our anti-virus application, eTrust, starts services on startup. However, they conflict with AdmitMac (I believe) and consequently the Mac takes 4-6 minutes to log in. A way around this is to use the eTrust System Preference and unselect start services at startup and then start the services, also from their System Preference, manually.
My question is, is there a way that anyone know of, to schedule a Unix Executable after login. Right now, choosing to start services via the System Preference runs a Unix Executable in the background but requires the admin password. If I run the script from a shell in the Terminal I need root access and to be logged on as an admin user. However, if it is run at startup, it runs in the background without interaction but takes 4-6 minutes as I mentioned, so this is what I’d like to delay until after login. I looked at the StartupParameters.plist file and tried to add a delay and changed the OrderPreference to “last” but this doesn’t make a difference. I cannot work out how to run this after login (I was thinking of an AppleScript).
If anyone can offer suggestions as to how I might run this after login (through delay or whatever) or point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.