Guys, Thanks for your answers. I think this should be mentioned in the manual. It's not clear you shouldn't be running the service and another SA a the same time. It can be pretty dangerous if you do. For instance I lost all changes I made in an interactive SA while the service was running. I'm not sure how it happened. "automatically save" was on. Maybe the SA on the console kept the old config in memory and saved it when the user logged off? In some situations it is also possible to stop (crash?) the service by starting SA in TS session.
At present SA allows you to start a second SA through terminal services. Both SA's use the same configuration (the hosts file, the log file, the interchange file..) and will start reading and writing to the same files. Will this not corrupt these files? At least the data in e.g. the interchange file will be unreliable (a mix of both). For stability it would be better if SA did not allow a second instance to be started or stopped the service first. Johan -----Original Message----- From: Brent Ozar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 21 maart 2003 17:52 To: Dewachter Johan Subject: Re: [SA-list] SAlive service and terminal server Friday, March 21, 2003, 10:41:39 AM, you wrote: DJ> When you install SA on W2K server and logon through terminal services, DJ> you get no tray icon, but you are able to start a second SA. Correct. That's how it's always been for me since v3, and actually all of the services I use work that way. Motherboard Monitor does that, too. DJ> Due to some strange effects I am now wondering DJ> - Is it allowed to start the SA exe a second time? DJ> - If this is allowed, what exactly happens? DJ> You now have two SA's running. Is the interactive SA a DJ> front-end that connects to the service? No. You're running two sets of checks. If you make changes over TS, you should stop the service first, load SA in the TS session, save your changes, then start the service again. DJ> - If this is not allowed, how are you supposed to change the DJ> configuration when SA is running as a service? You can't activate DJ> the tray icon in a TS session. SA has a built-in Telnet server, so you can make some changes that way, but I gotta confess - I'm lazy, and I just stop the service, make my changes over TS, and then start the service again. Brent -- BrentO Famous Last Words: Tell those Marines to stop singing in the halls To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
