[Opensim-users] OpenSim and Windows 2008 RC

[Joshua Rubeck]

Thanks for the info Fleep,

I have found no way to run Opennsim as a windows service either. I have
tested the same things you have after finally getting it to work on the
server.((Honestly IPSEC is a pain in the rear)). Fortunatly for us, we make
our own policies on account accessing, so I can share the access with the
other system admins, but I can see how that would be irritating to you.
Right now I am trying to get a currency module running at the request of
one of our clients. They are wanting their regions to have the currency
module enabled and to allow for land buying/selling so their students and
instructors can have parcels for their classes, instead of one region each
etc. This is proving difficult as it seems most modules that were available
have not been updated to 0.7.3. We are using DTLS/NSL MoneyServer for ours
since it seems to be the only one that will partially work but land buying
and Currency buying even as play money(IE what we need lol) wont work keeps
returning a DNS error no matter what we have tried. Do you have any
experience with this module or know a module that would work?



On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Fleep Tuque <fleep513 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Joshua,
>
> I've tried running opensim as a windows service following the instructions
> at
> http://tmurlikiewicz.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29:how-to-run-opensi
> to no success.
>
> Invariably when I try to start the service I get the error message "Error
> 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
> timely fashion."
>
> Finding some alternative methods to run applications as a windows service
> from
> http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/83272-how-to-run-a-program-as-a-service/ ,
> I also tried the Launcher Service (option 3),  but I couldn't figure out a
> way to get the configuration to accept a parameter - i.e. it would accept
> c:\opensim\bin\robust.exe as an executable, but no way to add the "
> -inifile=Robust.HG.ini" parameter (error was something about illegal
> characters in the config file).
>
> I did get the Launcher Service to start up opensim.32bitlaunch.exe, but
> the console appears on the Windows "interactive desktop" and if you close
> that window I never did figure out how to get back to it.
>
> After much futzing and trying different permutations, I've given up on
> running robust and opensim as a Windows service for now.  Which is kind of
> inconvenient since I can't figure out a way to share access with another
> sysadmin without giving them access to the windows account where the
> application is running - a total violation of our campus security policies.
>  :(
>
> - Chris/Fleep
>
> Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
> Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)
> UCIT Instructional & Research Computing
> University of Cincinnati
> 406A Zimmer Hall
> 315 College Drive
> PO BOX 210088
> Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088
> chris.collins at uc.edu
> (513) 556-3018
>
> http://ucsim.uc.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Joshua Rubeck <jrubeck1989 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> We recently purchased a new core server for our grid and decided to give
>> Windows 2008 RC a try. We haven't set anything up yet we were wanting to
>> get the best info so far. We have seen some pretty good reviews from people
>> who ran Win 08 RC but I was wondering if you all could help us out with
>> some issues:
>>
>> 1) Is there a windows Alternative to Monit that will restart an OpenSim
>> Instance if it goes down? ( I think Watchdog might but I am not sure)
>> 2) What ways is used to get OpenSim to run as a windows service so when
>> we close out of the GUI it is still running? And can this be done if the
>> remote desktop has multiple accounts?
>> 3) What antivirus software (free or at least a decent price) would you
>> guys recommend to help keep the server safe?
>>
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