How to start Rev by shell or startup item in the background under Mac OS X

[Pierre Sahores]

Hi Frank,

Le 3 mai 05, à 01:22, Frank D. Engel, Jr. a écrit :

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> Theoretically, you could use the rc scripts in the /etc directory to 
> start your app; however, there is an issue with this, where upgrades 
> to the OS can and sometimes do replace these files without asking for 
> permission.

Yeah ! And it's why we have time to time to reinstall or tune some 
.conf files (Apache, Postgres,..).
>
> These files are the 'normal' way to do it with most *NIX platforms, 
> but Apple warns you *not* to use them for OS X.
>
> The "correct" way to do this with Mac OS X is to place things in 
> /Library/StartupItems.
>
> For more details on how to write StartupItems, see this page:
>
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/21/startup.html
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Thanks. Will try those ways. No knowed issues with Rev 2.5.1 it self, 
in about this kind of configs ?
>
> StartupItems are launched after the GUI is started, but before the 
> login window appears (or the user is logged in automatically, if the 
> machine is insecurely configured to not display a login window).  They 
> are indeed run as root, and are not supposed to be graphical in nature 
> (they should be faceless background processes -- what UNIX calls 
> daemons and Windows calls "services"...

Thanks again,

Best Regards,

Pierre
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> On May 2, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
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>> Thanks Ken and Brian for the help :-)
>>
>> Unfortunaly, this don't feet the need to be able to start the process 
>> in root protected mode with access to a socket port < 1024. In more 
>> detailled words, is it a way to start a rev application from the 
>> Darwin shell console even if none of Cocoa nor XWindows are launched 
>> (darwin single user console mode start up) ?
>>
>> Best, Pierre
>>
>> Le 2 mai 05, à 23:13, Brian Yennie a écrit :
>>
>>> Pierre,
>>>
>>> If you just want to launch an ordinary MacOSX Rev standalone on 
>>> startup, you can put it in:
>>>
>>> /System/Library/StartupItems/
>>>
>>> You could also put an AppleScript in here to perform all sorts of 
>>> actions.
>>>
>>> Along with Ken's tip, you could hide the GUI and make it a 
>>> background process- although sometimes it is actually nice to have 
>>> an admin interface visible.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> - Brian
>>>
>>>> Hello to All,
>>>>
>>>> I use Rev as a deamon server (alike Apache, PostgreSQL and so on - 
>>>> not just as a CGI engine) under the linux platform in starting 
>>>> stack's instances in the Init System V way. I would be interested 
>>>> to know if anyone can say if it is possible to get the same result 
>>>> under the Mac OS X platform and if yes, how to set up Rev to be 
>>>> able to start it as a deamon application (witch engine and 
>>>> librairies, how to build the start-up adequate component) ?
>>>>
>>>> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
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