I agree that the current "on screen" console is a very bad idea, but nowadays is the only way to manage "standard" opensim servers.
My suggestions are only for a quick and easy way to do it. Anyway i don't use Robust (nor Simian) for my grid and I control my servers using a custom region plugin... 2011/5/10 Mike Chase <[email protected]> > You'd think with all the service Robustification this would be done. > Other than the console there's no obvious reason you shouldn't be able > to start opensim as a background process. I'd argued a while back for > an XMLRPC based "console" but that got shot down pretty quickly by a few > folks, though there were a few that liked the idea. IMO the missing > piece is a replacement for the console that uses a secure-able protocol. > Then the "console" could be in a seperate process and accessed when > needed rather than running all the time. > > Given the long term rules about access to client sources and > restrictions on contributions I can't do this but it shouldn't be hard > to do. Maybe consider this a feature request for a future release... > > Mike > > On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 14:55 +0200, Lino Figueroa wrote: > > Not so difficult. > > > > For Linux only: "screen Opensim........". You can install > > Opensim/ROBUST as "services" (Webmin has a good service manager). > > > > Take a look at: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Automating_Tasks > > > > And for the screen command: > > http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-quick-tutorial-on-screen/ > > > > You can change between screens for accessing the opensim console. > > > > > > For windows... no idea, I don't use windows for servers, but I suppose > > that the screen command has been "migrated" for windows too > > (http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) > > > > MAC OSX... even less idea. > > > > > > 2011/5/10 James Stallings II <[email protected]> > > This is a very broad topic involving the use of named pipes, > > complex shell scripts wrapped around ps, etc. > > > > > > It isn't something that will be readily covered in an email as > > it is more about how to use your operating system to cause > > programs to behave like services than it is anything > > specifically germane to opensim. > > > > > > It -is- doable though, I've done it in the past on a fairly > > massive scale (hundreds of simulators on the box). > > > > > > Good luck :-) > > > > > > James/Hiro > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Pi And Company > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just wondering if it is possible to run OpenSim and > > Robust in the background so an SSH tunnel is not > > nessessary to run it. If so, how do i set it up. > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensim-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > > > > > > > -- > > =================================== > > http://simhost.com http://osgrid.org > > http://twitter.com/jstallings2 > > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/770/a49 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensim-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensim-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >
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