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

[Brian Yennie]

Pierre,

If you just need access to port < 1024, I believe it's possible to make 
root the owner of the application and have access from a GUI app... but 
I doubt the app will run without Cocoa.

I don't think anything other than the Darwin/CGI engine will run on 
MacOSX if you cannot have Cocoa or XWindows. A while back I talked to 
Tuviah about a custom Darwin engine with database external embedded and 
a fork() command for this specific task but I ended up going a 
different route.

I'd say your best (and only other option on MacOS) is to use the Darwin 
engine. Note that this is not just for CGIs - it can open regular 
stacks under XWindows. Maybe you could have some sort of XWindows stub 
libraries installed, or set the DISPLAY to something null. If you could 
suppress XWindows, it would probably work.

- Brian

> 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) ?