[Opensim-dev] Running OpenSim in the background

[Mike Chase]

You'd think with all the service Robustification this would be done.
Other than the console there's no obvious reason you shouldn't be able
to start opensim as a background process.   I'd argued a while back for
an XMLRPC based "console" but that got shot down pretty quickly by a few
folks, though there were a few that liked the idea.   IMO the missing
piece is a replacement for the console that uses a secure-able protocol.
Then the "console" could be in  a seperate process and accessed when
needed rather than running all the time.

Given the long term rules about access to client sources and
restrictions on contributions I can't do this but it shouldn't be hard
to do.  Maybe consider this a feature request for a future release...

Mike

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 14:55 +0200, Lino Figueroa wrote:
> Not so difficult.
> 
> For Linux only: "screen Opensim........". You can install
> Opensim/ROBUST as "services" (Webmin has a good service manager).
> 
> Take a look at: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Automating_Tasks
> 
> And for the screen command:
> http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-quick-tutorial-on-screen/
> 
> You can change between screens for accessing the opensim console.
> 
> 
> For windows... no idea, I don't use windows for servers, but I suppose
> that the screen command has been "migrated" for windows too
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)
> 
> MAC OSX... even less idea.
> 
> 
> 2011/5/10 James Stallings II <james.stallings at gmail.com>
>         This is a very broad topic involving the use of named pipes,
>         complex shell scripts wrapped around ps, etc. 
>         
>         
>         It isn't something that will be readily covered in an email as
>         it is more about how to use your operating system to cause
>         programs to behave like services than it is anything
>         specifically germane to opensim.
>         
>         
>         It -is- doable though, I've done it in the past on a fairly
>         massive scale (hundreds of simulators on the box). 
>         
>         
>         Good luck :-) 
>         
>         
>         James/Hiro 
>         
>         
>         
>         On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Pi And Company
>         <piandcompany at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>                 Just wondering if it is possible to run OpenSim and
>                 Robust in the background so an SSH tunnel is not
>                 nessessary to run it. If so, how do i set it up. 
>                 
>                 
>                 Jason
>                 
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