Thank you, thank you Michael, David, and Bert...works great and makes sense as well.
Now, I am sorry to say, I will impose on you again... I'm having problems wrapping my head around the scripts for auto-restart in case of swiki crash (the scripts I am refering to are from the Swiki FAQ--pasted below); I never feel comfortable using something unless I know why it does what it does. While I haven't yet needed such scripts, I am about to go to an unwired part of Greece for a month; the Swiki has to stay live without my direct intervention. Can someone give me a dummies tutorial on the how and why of setting these up (or your own favorite script)? Thanks again, John **FROM SWIKI FAQ** How can I make a swiki server reboot automatically whenever it crashes? (I assume you not really mean to reboot the machine but to restart the server) First write a script that repeatedly starts the swiki: #! /bin/sh while true ; do squeakcomanche swiki.image ; done This assumes you rename your VM to squeakcomanche which is usefull because it stands out in the process list. Then write another script that checks if it is still responding and kills it eventually: #! /bin/sh wget -q -O /dev/null -T 20 http://localhost:8080/ || killall squeakcomanche This sets the timeout to 20 seconds. Then you put this script into a cron job or make it loop with a sleep 300 delay so it checks every 5 minutes if everything is okay. OTOH, my server runs fine for weeks - you should try another VM if it keeps crashing. -- Bert Freudenberg
