Running Squeak as a Linux service

Hi,

I have a Swiki on a machine and I want to make it run as a linux  
service and be able to start it and stop it from the OS. Any hint?

Thanks,
Noury
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Hi!

Noury Bouraqadi <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Swiki on a machine and I want to make it run as a linux  
> service and be able to start it and stop it from the OS. Any hint?

Sure. :) If it is a Debian box I can send you an /etc/init.d script.
But you can also use daemontools, should be available for all distros I
guess:

        http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

We use daemontools for squeak.org so there are several Squeakers who
know how it works.

regards, Göran

Noury,

I am not sure this is relevant, but I think people who run HTTP server from
Squeak (e.g. for Seaside) often have the same situation (although perhaps
with different arguments for Swiki). I run HTTP server with the 2 attached
scripts. It is really unnecesarily complicated, as I wanted to use the same
core to run both as service as well as manually as non-superuser, but you can
use the idea. Or use any file in /etc/init.d on your distro as example. The
squeak_http is the service (borrowed from SuSE, this should be
in /etc/init.d, and it "calls" the squeak_http service which is the core, and
could be merged inline).

Depending on the distro, each handles services a bit differently, but this
should run on any distro that is Linux Standard Base compliant (many of them
are). If you modify the paths referring to my system (look for mzimmerm) and  
put the squeak_http to /etc/init.d, and run as superuser
        cd  /etc/init.d/
        chkconfig  --add squeak_http # adds service to run levels
        ./http_service start #starts service
that should work.

Milan

On 2007 January 19 01:55, Noury Bouraqadi wrote:

Il giorno ven, 19/01/2007 alle 08.30 +0200, [hidden email] ha scritto:
On the Swiki swiki ( http://wiki.squeak.org/swiki ) there are a couple
of examples of init.d scripts, too.

        Giovanni

Thanks to all of you for your quick answers.

Noury
Le 19 janv. 07 à 13:06, Giovanni Corriga a écrit :

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[hidden email] wrote:
+1 for daemontools. It's a god send and the instructions are clear on
the site.


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