Choi, Ben S wrote: > Chris, > > Thanks for the bugzilla ref - I am only thinking about using this in a > simple single-user scenario. The discussion on the bugzilla thread seems to > be centered around a more general and much more complex problem of creating > a cross-user, cross-machine solution. > > If I'm not worried about those issues, what other things are needed in order > to daemonize it under Linux? The only obvious thing I see so far is that it > dies after the last browser instance is killed. Other than that, the > initial mozilla seems to receive and invoke as many remote openurl() > requests that are passed to it. >
No, that's what other people in the bug are talking about. I'm talking about something pretty simple as you describe. --Chris > Thanks, > Ben > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Blizzard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:50 PM > To: Ben Choi > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Does Mozilla "-turbo" mode (also known as server mode) work > on Linux? > > > Ben Choi wrote: > >>I've been looking at Mozilla's "-turbo" mode and have read that it only >>works for Windows. However, I'm working with Mozilla 0.9.5 on Linux and >>noticed that it appears to work there as well. >> >>The functionality I'm looking for is to be able to start Mozilla as a >>background daemon, suppressing opening the initial window and have any >>subsequence invocations of Mozilla send remote commands to the running >>process to open up new windows. When I startup "mozilla-bin" using >> > "-turbo" > >>in Linux (RH6.2) it seems to do what I want other than to kill the >>"mozilla-bin" process when the last window is killed (Instead, I'd like it >>to continue to run indefinitely). Other than that, it seems to work under >>Linux. >> >>Is there something I'm missing here, or am I getting this functionality >>under Linux "for free?" >> >>Thanks in advance, >> >>Ben >> >> >> >> >> > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86977 > > It doesn't work yet. It's on my list. Most of the messaging > infastructure is there as a result of my x-remote work. However, the > part that would actually run "as a daemon" isn't done. I just haven't > gotten to it yet since it's been lower priority than the other bits I've > been working on. > > --Chris > > -- ------------ Christopher Blizzard http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/ Mozilla.org - we're on a mission from God. Still. ------------
