Having computers auto start after a server restart

Hello everyone.

So, I'm working on my own version of a sorting system, and I've gotten it to work perfectly now except for 1 very annoying thing.

I am using the startup program to make sure it runs the sorting program when the computer starts, however this only happens when someone initially interacts with the computer, so after a server restart it wont auto start until I log on and go to each and every computer to start them up, which is VERY tedious.

So my question is this: Is there a way for me to have the computers automatically start after a server restart or some other way to make them start up automatically without requiring player input?

Thanks in advance.
Graloth

As long as nobody turns them off they will turn on at chunk reload.

if the are on before then on chunk/server reload they should turn on…

sometimes it requires you to walk into the area so that they load… this is where chunk loaders come in…

they are chunkloaded via a railcraft world anchor (not configured to require fuel, so it runs constantly) since I have other machines that need to stay loaded, yet still the startup script that updates item counts first run when I interact with the computer, even though it is called startup and placed in the computer root, it doesn't seem to work for me.

Maybe there is a config option I've missed? (though I doubt it as I've been through it so many times already looking for it)

if its CC1.481 then it could be this then http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/10096-computers-turn-on-when-the-chunk-is-loaded/

Hm, will have to check which version we're running and update it then, since that feature is very useful for me :)/>

OriginalBIT, that one is the exact opposite of this problem, that one is about computers turning on when they are off and should be off.

This does sound like a bug in the version Tekkit uses that causes computers not to boot correctly when the chunk is reloaded.

Tekkit - keeping people on outdated versions since 2011!

New here and new to CC but not knowing your program couldn't you set a button via redstone signal to start them and link them all up to one master or chain link one to all with messages.

If a computer is off, it can only be started by another computer or a player right-clicking it. If the problem is that computers which are supposed to be on remain off when the chunk reloads, the only solution is to right-click them again. Or to update, since this bug is only present in outdated versions.

gotcha, to get the signal as input to "run" it would have to be on, makes sense. Duh moment.