On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 03:41 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
> Considerations > 1. There is a built-in application called WatchDog which can be > configured to autorestart an application if it should crash > thereby assuring that your program would always be running. This > would be similar to running as a service under Windows for all > practical purposes. Will this start it the first time, that is, at boot? Is this on regular ol OS X, too? > 2. GUI based applications require a display card which is an > option for XServe so it may not be included in all XServe > installations. Will GUI be ignored if there is no card or will it break something? > 3. If a server app has a GUI the server needs to come up fully to > the desktop which means that the server must log in automatically > and then call the screen saver to provide the security lock. > Revolution can certainly build non-GUI apps and they would not > have this requirement. With Windows 2000 I have been able to run Rev-based services with a GUI or with the GUI ignored. How do I make a non-GUI app with Revolution? I always get a stack showing. > 4. Apple's server software in built in two parts. 1. A faceless > non-GUI server app. and 2. Administrative front end which > communicates over interfaces such as SSH, telnet, terminal, etc. > and can be run on the server itself as well as a remote computer. > This is probably a good model to follow and Revolution makes this > pretty easy as it is cross-platform by nature. Cool! I'm already splitting mine in two. I'm using tcp/ip for communication. My admin half is a GUI. Based on what you are recommending, maybe it (or a version) should also run over telnet or terminal. Wow! Thanks for all the info, Bill! Dar Scott _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
