Eric,
> The first problem is that once I start the server, I can't restart it
> without restarting the whole machine. If I start the server, then stop it
> (or it crashes), when I attempt to restart it, I get a "file not found
> error: libxmltok.dynlib" (I'm repeating that from memory, so forgive me if
> it's not 100% accurate). As I said, the only reliable way I've found to
> restart the witango daemon is to restart the whole machine. Ugh.

As you are using the server in the context of the active user you will not
have an LD_LIBRARY_PATH set.  This path is used bay all mach (not Mac)
applications.  This environment variable is how unix applications find their
associated dylib files.  A unix app will first look in the active directory
and then the paths defined in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH .

If you do not want to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in your
user space you will need to be in the server's working directory which is
/Applications/Witango/Server.

Try using:

cd /Applications/Witango/Server
./witangod -ku

> The second problem is that Witango server crashes any time I access a
> FileMaker data source which has a space in a layout or field name.

It is important to understand that the Witango server cannot be run as a
daemon when using AppleEvents to communicate with FileMaker as a background
process has no WindowServer running in the same context as the daemon
process.  This prevents AppleEvents being sent and received.  Have you read
the ReadMme that shipped with the server.  It contains the information you
need to migrate a FileMaker/T2K/OS9 solution to FileMaker/Witango5/OS X.

If you execute a ps -aux command in the terminal you will see a process
similar to this.  A daemon does not have this process available to it.

philwade   183   3.1  6.0   189076  31248  ??  Ss   Wed11AM  21:26.73
/System/Library/CoreServices/WindowServer -daemon


Phil

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