VServer Questions

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 15, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Russ Tyndall wrote:
>
> Trevor, just curious:
>
> When you logout of the ID, does Vserver terminate?
>
> Also, when you close the Terminal session, does it terminate?
>
> On my OS X.4.6 installation, Vserver starts up when the machine  
> boots up and
> remains open until a user logs out.  If I start it up from  
> terminal, it
> quits when I quit the terminal session. This happens even though  
> the Vserver
> process is running as Root.
>
> I would love to know how to get it to start and stay "up" whether  
> someone
> logs in/logs off, etc.. I'm sure there is some way to do it via  
> terminal or
> by adjusting some unix setting(s) on OS X --- but I haven't  
> stumbled across
> it yet.

I just started playing with VServer so I haven't experimented with  
this.  This works for me though (VServer stays open after closing  
terminal window):

sudo echo
sudo /Library/StartupItems/VServer_Office/VServer_Office start &

I got this example from http://www.entropy.ch/software/MacOSx/mysql/


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems - http://www.bluemangolearning.com
trevor at bluemangolearning.com