[Opensim-dev] Running OpenSim in the background

[R. Gunther]

Why not take a look at Remoteadmin option from opensim ?
Works for many things fine. only the things you can do are restricted.

http://opensimulator.org/wiki/RemoteAdmin

Richard


On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 09:11 -0400, Mike Chase wrote:

> 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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