[Opensim-dev] Running OpenSim in the background

[Lino Figueroa]

I agree that the current "on screen" console is a very bad idea, but
nowadays is the only way to manage "standard" opensim servers.

My suggestions are only for a quick and easy way to do it.

Anyway i don't use Robust (nor Simian) for my grid and I control my servers
using a custom region plugin...



2011/5/10 Mike Chase <mike.chase at alternatemetaverse.com>

> 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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