Hi Eric,
I think you should be fine just killing the process. That's what we do
and it works fine. There's potential for a page to get screwed up if you
kill it during saving, but this is unlikely. The image doesn't change at
all, so you should not need a backup.
Peace and Luck!
Je77
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:50:31PM -0700, Eric Scharff wrote:
> OK, this may seem like a silly question, but is there a "good" way to shut
> down a headless swiki?
>
> I finally got things working by
> * Building the Unix 2.7 VM headless
> * Filing in the ComSwiki change set
> * Get worried when it tells me I'm re-defining process, but proceed
> anyway since it seems to work. :)
> * Start the ComSwikiLauncher
> * Save and exit
>
> >From here, it looks like I can start a headless VM and it works great!
> Thanks guys!
>
> But... if I ever want to shut down the VM, what do I need to do? Will
> something very bad happen if I simply kill it with SIGINT? Or, since
> things are file based, should it be mostly OK if the system ever crashes?
>
> Here is my plan: I'm going to back up the swiki directory
> regularly and keep a backup of this original image (the one I just made
> that has ComSwiki running. If things ever go really bad, I plan to simply
> copy the original image/changes that I just made. Will that work? Is it
> possible that the VM image and the swiki folder get really out of sync?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Eric
