There have been multiple discussions about hosting in the past. Here is one: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/jbooktrader/host/jbooktrader/8GM-p6i9rpA/4tDpAfpEkVcJ For other discussion threads, search "hosting" within the group discussions.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Judson Wilson <[email protected]>wrote: > I believe you need to setup a VNC server so that you have an X11 > environment (basically it wants to run a GUI). > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:52 PM, toughluck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:01:36 PM UTC-8, Judson Wilson wrote: >>> >>> Trading on hotel wifi is a recipe for disaster. >>> >>> Took the good advice from both (thanks) and stopped trading for the >> remainder of the vacation. >> >> Thinking that it was more important to have a quality connection between >> JBookTrader and IB rather than between me and JBookTrader upon my return I >> started looking at the option of running JbookTrader in a shell account. >> Has any one done this? >> >> My internet provider shell account did not have java. After unsuccessful >> tries to install java in it, I then tried to find another internet provider >> with java jre 1.7. I opened an account with hypeshell.com and tried to >> install IB Gateway (unix version) there.. but have not been successful. >> It gives me some errors that it needs to set an 'X11 display variable' >> and it gets stuck giving me other errors such as 'Thread CPU time >> measurement is not supported'. I read some post saying that I could use a >> program called Xming in conjunction with Putty to display the (what would >> be) monitor screen into my personal computer. Still no success on that >> either. >> >> Bottom line, I thought I could have a command line only (no graphics) IB >> Gateway accessible through SSH (putty), and then start JBookTrader on a >> java command line and look at the JbookTrader web console over the net with >> the advantage of a fast quality connection between JBookTrader and IB, but >> I have not progressed beyond the first step: getting the IB gateway to run >> on a provider's shell account. Has anyone been successful in this? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "JBookTrader" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "JBookTrader" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
